Hey Paul, as a Lit teacher I taught many of these novels ... Huck Finn, Frankenstein, Gatsby, Tale of Two Cities, etc. In so doing, I've read them multiple times ... I think I've read Gatsby 15 times. And I always seem to find something I'd missed before. Twain, Fitzgerald ... beautiful writing and writing to emulate. Anyway, cool resource. -- Jim
Cool idea...would enjoy getting one chapter from different autobiographies daily as a concept...basically transforming creator content pre net into bloggable insights...specifically need Rodney Dangerfield, Phyllis Diller and David Lee Roth to start...
Great round-up, thank you! I'm new to substack (loving it so far!) but my understanding is that it doesn't have a drip/automatic function on emails yet. So how are these newsletters handling sending out a fixed sequence of serialized chapters to different subscribers who sign up at different times? Thanks! :)
I think transmitting these books, in a serialized format, is an excellent idea.
Many people considerr me very well read and highly literate, but I am the first to admit that I often groan when confronted with a 500 page volume.
Very simply, there are only so many hours in a day. Sometimes we are bombarded with too many damn things to read. Of course, social media only makes it worse. Millions of self-important divas feel compelled to get up on a soap box and rant ad nauseum about every meagre, insignificant thought that percoltes in their petty and paranoid mind.
When the novels are sent to us is a serialzed format, we won't feel as if our inbox just got weighted down with a 5 hour piece of homework in the form of a 500 page book. We can read a little bit each day and that will make the verbiage do down with less effort.
And Man, wouldn't it be great to put down the BS of so many contemporary scribblers. I mean I am sick and tired of the gossippy little pricks talking about Charles and Camilla and Harry and William. George Orwell was a brvae and good man, and I think I need more of his honest excellence in my life.
Anything that promotes classic literature, including online serialization, is a good idea. But I’d much prefer to read the book than have it metered out in a newsletter. I find the pages of a book preferable to a blinking screen.
Great idea. I find though I end up binge reading: if I had to wait a day for the next bit I would end up tearing my hair out. So for me, this sort of thing would work well as a sampler, and if I liked it I'd probably go and borrow the book from a library or buy it.
I think another consideration is that there would have to be an index so that people late to the party could start at #1
Yeah. It is amazing, really. Byron and his doctor John Polidori were hosting Percy and Mary Shelley during the coldest, most miserable summer in Europe in centuries. Percy and Mary had just run off from England. (Percy left behind his pregnant wife ... nice guy, eh?).
Anyway, nobody could go out, so Byron and Polidori got really drunk (laudanum was supposedly involved, too) and told the guests to come up with a scary story. Mary took it seriously. '
Yes, Lord Byron. Quite a character. Look him up ... "mad, bad and dangerous to know."
Thanks for this Paul, I didn't know this was a thing. I appreciate the long list you provided and would love to see more classic novel serials on Substack.
Hey Paul, as a Lit teacher I taught many of these novels ... Huck Finn, Frankenstein, Gatsby, Tale of Two Cities, etc. In so doing, I've read them multiple times ... I think I've read Gatsby 15 times. And I always seem to find something I'd missed before. Twain, Fitzgerald ... beautiful writing and writing to emulate. Anyway, cool resource. -- Jim
I think it's a great idea... to keep these wonderful classic tales alive among all the drivel passing for literature out there!
Cool idea...would enjoy getting one chapter from different autobiographies daily as a concept...basically transforming creator content pre net into bloggable insights...specifically need Rodney Dangerfield, Phyllis Diller and David Lee Roth to start...
Great round-up, thank you! I'm new to substack (loving it so far!) but my understanding is that it doesn't have a drip/automatic function on emails yet. So how are these newsletters handling sending out a fixed sequence of serialized chapters to different subscribers who sign up at different times? Thanks! :)
I think transmitting these books, in a serialized format, is an excellent idea.
Many people considerr me very well read and highly literate, but I am the first to admit that I often groan when confronted with a 500 page volume.
Very simply, there are only so many hours in a day. Sometimes we are bombarded with too many damn things to read. Of course, social media only makes it worse. Millions of self-important divas feel compelled to get up on a soap box and rant ad nauseum about every meagre, insignificant thought that percoltes in their petty and paranoid mind.
When the novels are sent to us is a serialzed format, we won't feel as if our inbox just got weighted down with a 5 hour piece of homework in the form of a 500 page book. We can read a little bit each day and that will make the verbiage do down with less effort.
And Man, wouldn't it be great to put down the BS of so many contemporary scribblers. I mean I am sick and tired of the gossippy little pricks talking about Charles and Camilla and Harry and William. George Orwell was a brvae and good man, and I think I need more of his honest excellence in my life.
Anything that promotes classic literature, including online serialization, is a good idea. But I’d much prefer to read the book than have it metered out in a newsletter. I find the pages of a book preferable to a blinking screen.
Might be interesting to do a similar thing with comics, as a way of building community.
https://comicbookplus.com/
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
https://www.comicstriplibrary.org/about
Great idea. I find though I end up binge reading: if I had to wait a day for the next bit I would end up tearing my hair out. So for me, this sort of thing would work well as a sampler, and if I liked it I'd probably go and borrow the book from a library or buy it.
I think another consideration is that there would have to be an index so that people late to the party could start at #1
Yeah. It is amazing, really. Byron and his doctor John Polidori were hosting Percy and Mary Shelley during the coldest, most miserable summer in Europe in centuries. Percy and Mary had just run off from England. (Percy left behind his pregnant wife ... nice guy, eh?).
Anyway, nobody could go out, so Byron and Polidori got really drunk (laudanum was supposedly involved, too) and told the guests to come up with a scary story. Mary took it seriously. '
Yes, Lord Byron. Quite a character. Look him up ... "mad, bad and dangerous to know."
Thanks for this Paul, I didn't know this was a thing. I appreciate the long list you provided and would love to see more classic novel serials on Substack.