I find the early 19th century period kinda' boring, as a setting. I prefer going back another 200 or 300 years, or forward to the later Victorian era.
I was forced to read [Pride and Prejudice] for school, and I am not one to cheat and use spark notes or cliff notes.
Me too. I had read it half-way through, and then one day I realised that we were going to have a test on it that day, so I skimmed the rest of it on the half-hour bus ride to school.
I passed.
"Moby Dick", on the other hand, I read for fun when I was an adult. Some folks seem to hate
that book.