Me too. I seem to have replaced a addiction to The Archers with Trollope... I love the long view of characters he constructs and the way they behave like real human beings. I've just finished He Knew he was right and can recommend it's, cali
I just finished The Duke’s Children in January. I am at about the same place you are in reading Trollope’s works. I have read He Knew He was Right long ago. I dnf’d The Way We Live Now because it was so cynical and I was reading it in the middle of a very bad election season here in the USA. Made it painful! But I really want to read more Trollope as well. Do you do buddy reads? Maybe in the second half of 2023? I would be up for it!
How lovely to be in sync with readers around the world. I'm not much use as a buddy reader, I'm afraid as I tend to whiz through things when I start them and it doesn't seem compatible with a read-a-long over time. I hope to get to The Duke's Children this year and then tackle some of the standalones.
It's just about finding an extended period of quiet to really dive in. Staying away from my phone for 25 hours on the sabbath really helps me take a big chunk out of a mammoth like this.
Love Trollope too, despite the flaws. Read the Barchester Chronicles, the Pallisers series and a few of the standalones in my 20s, when they were perfect commuting reads. Now in my 60s am picking them up again. Read The Way We Live Now last year, and have Lady Anna on my shelves for this year. Mine are all the Oxford World Classics series. If you are looking for what Trollope to read next I would recommend looking at Katie from Books and Things. She has reviewed and ranked her favourites.
Thanks for the tip. For some reason I've never warmed to the Oxford World Classics imprint. I've had to use them for a couple of Hardy books that Penguin didn't publish, most of George Gissing and for my Zola project, but I prefer to pick up the Penguin Classics when I can.
You asked for a shout out on Sir Harry Hotspur. I’ve read all of his fiction. Hotspur is one of his shorter books, which tend not to be as good in my estimation. The other famous one that you didn’t mention is The Way We Live Now, which is excellent but gets into the anti-Semitism territory. Other favorites of mine are John Caldigate, Rachel Ray, Marion Fay, The Claverings and The American Senator.
Yes, thanks so much. I still have one more of the Palliser books to get through, but I'm determined to continue on with his standalones after that, because the reading is so enjoyable. Good to know there are still delights ahead.
The great thing about liking Trollope is that there is so much of it!
It does make me feel guilty about not having finished with Dickens, but the heart wants what the heart wants.
Me too. I seem to have replaced a addiction to The Archers with Trollope... I love the long view of characters he constructs and the way they behave like real human beings. I've just finished He Knew he was right and can recommend it's, cali
Orley Farm is also very good. American Senator not so great.. And The Way we live now is a masterpiece, although has some antisemitic tropes again
Looking forward to seeing what else Trollope has to offer. Should take me the next 20 years or thereabouts!
I just finished The Duke’s Children in January. I am at about the same place you are in reading Trollope’s works. I have read He Knew He was Right long ago. I dnf’d The Way We Live Now because it was so cynical and I was reading it in the middle of a very bad election season here in the USA. Made it painful! But I really want to read more Trollope as well. Do you do buddy reads? Maybe in the second half of 2023? I would be up for it!
How lovely to be in sync with readers around the world. I'm not much use as a buddy reader, I'm afraid as I tend to whiz through things when I start them and it doesn't seem compatible with a read-a-long over time.
I hope to get to The Duke's Children this year and then tackle some of the standalones.
I cannot believe you managed to finish this in a week, all credit to you!
It's just about finding an extended period of quiet to really dive in. Staying away from my phone for 25 hours on the sabbath really helps me take a big chunk out of a mammoth like this.
Love Trollope too, despite the flaws. Read the Barchester Chronicles, the Pallisers series and a few of the standalones in my 20s, when they were perfect commuting reads. Now in my 60s am picking them up again. Read The Way We Live Now last year, and have Lady Anna on my shelves for this year. Mine are all the Oxford World Classics series. If you are looking for what Trollope to read next I would recommend looking at Katie from Books and Things. She has reviewed and ranked her favourites.
Thanks for the tip. For some reason I've never warmed to the Oxford World Classics imprint. I've had to use them for a couple of Hardy books that Penguin didn't publish, most of George Gissing and for my Zola project, but I prefer to pick up the Penguin Classics when I can.
what flaws!?!??!?!?!?
@@yexilio Main problem is antisemitism.
you do whet my appetite to read some trollope...
If you start with The Warden, you can't go wrong.
You asked for a shout out on Sir Harry Hotspur. I’ve read all of his fiction. Hotspur is one of his shorter books, which tend not to be as good in my estimation. The other famous one that you didn’t mention is The Way We Live Now, which is excellent but gets into the anti-Semitism territory. Other favorites of mine are John Caldigate, Rachel Ray, Marion Fay, The Claverings and The American Senator.
Yes, thanks so much. I still have one more of the Palliser books to get through, but I'm determined to continue on with his standalones after that, because the reading is so enjoyable. Good to know there are still delights ahead.