At last there’s a game that all parents are able to play! Well I realise that ‘game’ and ‘play’ are probably not the best adjectives to use when I talk about the 100 Classic Book Collection, but lets just keep that between us, why don’t we?

Now I realise that all you serious gamers out there, who are used to all those grand scale battles of God Of War and BioShock and the sexiness of Final Fantasy and Lara Croft are as interested in Classic Books as a cow would be in meat (Apologies to all of you who actually are bookworms-awesome, read on!!)

This Classic Book Collection is great for people who have read a few classic books years ago and would like to read them again, and maybe read some of those that you never even thought of, like Moby Dick or Little Women, maybe even Jane Eyre or the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I mean what guy wouldn’t want to be sucked back into that world of Tom Sawyer and Huckelberry Finn that reminds them of their childhood?

Sure all these books are classics and maybe written in an English we’re not all that used to, but there really is something for everyone! Including all the Jane Austen and most of Shakespeare (I think - How many plays did he write again??)

The great thing about the DS Classic Book Collection is that you are able to carry a hundred books around with you, while travelling for example, whereas normally that would be quite a difficult task to accomplish (Please don’t try this at home). You will also not be an annoyance to your partner lying in the bed beside you while you are caught up in the tales of Oliver Twist or Catherine and Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights, because no bedside lamp is needed! If you’re anything like me, and if your partner is naything like mine, I know you will love this!

You are able to use bookmarks so that you don’t lose your place when you put your ‘book’ down – and it will never fall out! The thing here is that you cannot go straight to your bookmark once you have gone out of the book. If I could change something it would be to have a dropdown menu with all the bookmarks you have used so that you can choose and go there immediately without having to find the book from the list again.

If you are into listening to chilled music while reading there is a collection to choose from although it sounds a bit tinny and I prefer to just read in silence.

The DS screen is a bit small and at first this is a quite strange but after a while you get used to it and it starts feeling normal. You can turn the page a few different ways which is great when you lie down and read, which I do, and I really liked this because it allowed me to change the page without moving, wow that makes me sound lazy!

This is a great way to get kids to read books they wouldn’t normally read, or to read as a school assignment or book review (I still remember doing those, and being able to read them on a DS would have been so much cooler).

One thing I would like to have seen is a way to scribble notes on the side, underline words or phrases and maybe even a dictionary that explains the difficult old-English that is very often used in these classics.

Below is a list of all the books in the Collection, however you are able to download a few more from the Internet once you feel the need to expand your library:

• Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
• Jane Austen - Emma
• Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
• Jane Austen - Persuasion
• Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
• Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
• Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• R.D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
• Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
• Charlotte Bronte - The Professor
• Charlotte Bronte - Shirley
• Charlotte Bronte - Villette
• Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
• John Bunyan - The Pilgrim’s Progress
• Frances Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Frances Burnett - The Secret Garden
• Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass
• Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
• Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
• Carlo Collodi - The Adventures of Pinocchio
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
• Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim
• Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did
• James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans
• Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
• Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge
• Charles Dickens - Bleak House
• Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
• Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
• Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son
• Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
• Charles Dickens - Hard Times
• Charles Dickens - Martin Chuzzlewit
• Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby
• Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
• Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
• Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers
• Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
• Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
• Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
• George Eliot - Adam Bede
• George Eliot - Middlemarch
• George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
• Henry Rider Haggard - King Solomon’s Mines
• Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd
• Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Thomas Hardy - Tess of The D’Urbervilles
• Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree
• Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
• Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
• Washington Irving - The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
• Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho!
• D.H. Lawrence - Sons And Lovers
• Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
• Jack London - The Call of the Wild
• Jack London - White Fang
• Herman Melville - Moby Dick
• Edgar Allen Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
• Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
• Sir Walter Scott - Rob Roy
• Sir Walter Scott - Waverley
• Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
• William Shakespeare - All’s Well That Ends Well
• William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra
• William Shakespeare - As You Like It
• William Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors
• William Shakespeare - Hamlet
• William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
• William Shakespeare - King Henry the Fifth
• William Shakespeare - King Lear
• William Shakespeare - King Richard the Third
• William Shakespeare - Love’s Labour’s Lost
• William Shakespeare - Macbeth
• William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
• William Shakespeare - A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
• William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
• William Shakespeare - Othello, the Moor of Venice
• William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
• William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew
• William Shakespeare - The Tempest
• William Shakespeare - Timon of Athens
• William Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus
• William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
• William Shakespeare - The Winter’s Tale
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels
• William Thackeray - Vanity Fair
• Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers
• Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
• Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
• Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

So, in conclusion this is a great game to get if you’re a bookworm, have parents who like classics or maybe even a way to get your kids into reading again.