by Karen M.
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March 7, 2007

Reading the Classics

August 25, 2007 09:17 PM EDT
views: 26 | rating: 10/10 (6 votes) | comments: 15

What books do you consider CLASSICS? What are your favorites? This is a topic that has always intrigued me as I love reading them. I am currently on a Jane Austen kick. I have read "Northanger Abbey" and am reading "Emma" now with "Pride and Prejudice" on the nightstand waiting. My hope is to read, "The Jane Austen Book Club" once I have read all her works.

So, what books today will be classics in the years to come? I know I have asked a lot of questions, answer one or all of them. I just love to talk about the classics.

 

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Comments: 15

Do you also like the Brontes? I find that people who like Austen usually also like the Brontes.
Karen M. Aug 25, 2007, 9:59pm EDT
I haven't gotten to them yet...It is funny, I didn't care for the classics until I was about 30...I have a lot of catching up to do.
Lori Cee (rest in peace, jJack.) Aug 25, 2007, 10:00pm EDT
fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury
catcher in the rye by j d salinger
black boy and native son by richard wright
☀ Aunt Shanny Aug 25, 2007, 10:08pm EDT
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
The Thorn Birds

Future classic:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
☀ Aunt Shanny Aug 25, 2007, 10:14pm EDT
Future classic: The Handmaid's Tale
Susan N. Aug 25, 2007, 11:02pm EDT
To Kill a Mockingbird, Red Badge of Courage, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Jane Eyre, Oliver Twist, The Bell Jar...so many books so little time!
Linda M. Aug 26, 2007, 1:58am EDT
I too am on a classics kick. Currently though, I'm reading children's novels from the Newbery list. I've also read a lot of classic novels for adults. I have a list of most things I've read here: My Reading List - and there's a section on classics I've read. In the last year I've read A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
Teresa W. Aug 26, 2007, 2:56am EDT
I always thought the classics were Call of the Wild, Robinson Crusoe, Jungle Book, etc. and not the Disney versions. :-) I had a whole set when was a kid and read them all. I guess I haven't read the adult classics yet, might have to think about that one day.
Amanda "middle of nowhere" C. Aug 26, 2007, 7:01am EDT
My mom has discovered the classics. In the past few years, she's read lots of Austin, Dickens, Hawthorne, Steinbeck.

My advice? Avoid Faulkner.
Trish A. Aug 26, 2007, 8:11am EDT
The Grapes of Wrath, The Stranger, oh so many more but my memory doesn't serve me right now.
Lindsey S. Aug 26, 2007, 12:21pm EDT
oliver twist and to kill a mockingbird are the first ones that pop into my mind not saying that they are my favorites though
Allana G. Aug 26, 2007, 12:30pm EDT
To me, a piece of literature is a classic if, despite its age, it has themes that are still relevant today. This is why Shakespeare is so widely revered: the themes are so real and true even in this century. Some of my favorites: The Great Gatsby, A Scarlet Letter, Middlemarch.
donna h. Aug 26, 2007, 1:50pm EDT
Wuthering Heights
CyberGwen ! Aug 27, 2007, 1:59pm EDT
Let's see...here are the ones thatI have read this year that I consider Classics:
Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
Candide, Voltaire
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow, 1975
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
The Pearl, John Steinbeck
The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams

I try to mix classics in with the newer stuff that I read.
mona b. Jan 2, 2008, 5:54pm EST
love books....my favs have to be pride and prejudice(named my dog after fitzwilliam), uncle tom's cabin(absolute best but so sad), age of innocence(and i guess eathan frome), of mice and men, and exodus.

for the kids(okay VERY dedicated kids anyway);
alice in wonderland
dr.doolittle(i swear it's not that bad)
peter pan (interesting how he portrays wendy)


don't read the back covers or whatever...they make the book seem unappealing.=]

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