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Bookanista t1_j6lso88 wrote

Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, Roughing It or The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain. All of these are extremely funny books despite being written 150+ years ago.

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LizzyWednesday t1_j6p07c0 wrote

Totally random, but despite the fact that Pickwick Papers is Anne Shirley's comfort book in Anne of the Island, and I was obsessed with the Anne books in my early teens, I have never actually read it. (I've read A Tale of Two Cities, and half-assed an abridged version of Great Expectations, not to mention having read A Christmas Carol which is short enough that I could probably read it aloud to/with my daughter to see how familiar she is with the story.)

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Bookanista t1_j6pcm8x wrote

I’m not a huge Dickens fan in general but I adored this book.

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LizzyWednesday t1_j6ph6ir wrote

I went through a phase in upper elementary school/middle school where "only Classics" was kinda my motto, so I gravitated towards Dickens because the complicated syntax made me feel smarter.

I'll absolutely have to read Pickwick, though.

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