The Classics Club 50 Question Survey

Inspired by some bookish surveys we’ve seen floating around lately, we’d thought we’d offer a survey for clubbers to mix it up a little.

As always, we’re quite flexible. If one of the questions below doesn’t work for you, please feel free to ask it your own way, or replace questions with your own twist. We’re just posting this for fun, to give fellow clubbers an opportunity to check in with one another and share. 🙂 Certainly no pressure, ever. If you decide to fill out this questionnaire, feel free to leave your link below, and visit one another.

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50 Club Questions: 

1. Share a link to your club list.
2. When did you join The Classics Club? How many titles have you read for the club? (We are SO CHECKING UP ON YOU! Nah. We’re just asking.) 🙂
3. What are you currently reading?
4. What did you just finish reading and what did you think of it?
5. What are you reading next? Why?
6. Best book you’ve read so far with the club, and why?
7. Book you most anticipate (or, anticipated) on your club list?
8. Book on your club list you’ve been avoiding, if any? Why?
9. First classic you ever read?
10. Toughest classic you ever read?
11. Classic that inspired you? or scared you? made you cry? made you angry?
12. Longest classic you’ve read? Longest classic left on your club list?
13. Oldest classic you’ve read? Oldest classic left on your club list?
14. Favorite biography about a classic author you’ve read — or, the biography on a classic author you most want to read, if any?
15. Which classic do you think EVERYONE should read? Why?
16. Favorite edition of a classic you own, if any?
17. Favorite movie adaption of a classic?
18. Classic which hasn’t been adapted yet (that you know of) which you very much wish would be adapted to film.
19. Least favorite classic? Why?
20. Name five authors you haven’t read yet whom you cannot wait to read.
21. Which title by one of the five you’ve listed above most excites you and why?
22. Have you read a classic you disliked on first read that you tried again and respected, appreciated, or even ended up loving? (This could be with the club or before it.)
23. Which classic character can’t you get out of your head?
24. Which classic character most reminds you of yourself?
25. Which classic character do you most wish you could be like?
26. Which classic character reminds you of your best friend?
27. If a sudden announcement was made that 500 more pages had been discovered after the original “THE END” on a classic title you read and loved, which title would you most want to keep reading? Or, would you avoid the augmented manuscript in favor of the original? Why?
28. Favorite children’s classic?
29. Who recommended your first classic?
30. Whose advice do you always take when it comes to literature. (Recommends the right editions, suggests great titles, etc.)
31. Favorite memory with a classic?
32. Classic author you’ve read the most works by?
33. Classic author who has the most works on your club list?
34. Classic author you own the most books by?
35. Classic title(s) that didn’t make it to your club list that you wish you’d included? (Or, since many people edit their lists as they go, which titles have you added since initially posting your club list?)
36. If you could explore one author’s literary career from first publication to last — meaning you have never read this author and want to explore him or her by reading what s/he wrote in order of publication — who would you explore? Obviously this should be an author you haven’t yet read, since you can’t do this experiment on an author you’re already familiar with. 🙂 Or, which author’s work you are familiar with might it have been fun to approach this way?
37. How many rereads are on your club list? If none, why? If some, which are you most looking forward to, or did you most enjoy?
38. Has there been a classic title you simply could not finish?
39. Has there been a classic title you expected to dislike and ended up loving?
40. Five things you’re looking forward to next year in classic literature?
41. Classic you are DEFINITELY GOING TO MAKE HAPPEN next year?
42. Classic you are NOT GOING TO MAKE HAPPEN next year?
43. Favorite thing about being a member of the Classics Club?
44. List five fellow clubbers whose blogs you frequent. What makes you love their blogs?
45. Favorite post you’ve read by a fellow clubber?
46. If you’ve ever participated in a readalong on a classic, tell about the experience? If you’ve participated in more than one, what’s the very best experience? the best title you’ve completed? a fond memory? a good friend made?
47. If you could appeal for a readalong with others for any classic title, which title would you name? Why?
48. How long have you been reading classic literature?
49. Share up to five posts you’ve written that tell a bit about your reading story. Reviews, journal entries, posts on novels you loved or didn’t love, lists, etc.
50. Question you wish was on this questionnaire? (Ask and answer it!)

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