FWIW, my current reading project is a bit more ambitious. I'm tackling The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The classics are something I generally avoid; especially Russian Lit. But if I'm going to dabble in this genre, my first choice would be Dostoevsky, as I read a biography about him way back in high school.
I'm about 100 pages through it so far; out of a total of around 600 pages. I have no doubt that I'll finish it (I am OCD, after all), but it will take a few weeks.
