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Anyone know of any good classic novels that you want or recomend to read? I know a few, but i want to read more good ones, so if you know of anything feel free to write it here. Thanks.
I have enjoyed mark Twain, john steinbeck edgar alan poe, to name a few authors.
Have you read Gone With the Wind or To Kill a Mocking Bird?
The Scarlet Letter, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Huckleberry Finn, and any by Charles Dickens.
So far i read some of Charles Dickens, and To Kill A Mockingbird.
I heard of Scarlet Letter, and I already read Huckleberry Finn.
As for the classics, I have always loved the great Russian writers--Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, etc.
You might check out some of the short stories by Guy D'maupasant. His most famous is "the necklace", but he wrote hundreds of them. They run all the way from love stories, to horor stories.
Bob
I like Catherine Coxan, Danielle Steel, Virgina Andrews, Emma Blaire and Jesica Stirling. They are family sgas. The authors are English, American and Scottish.
reading crime and punishment right now. it's interesting. Also read part of Kafka's The Trial.. never again.
Kafka, oh my God!
Try to read "the old country doctor" the strangest story I ever read.
Also Metamorphysis, about a guy that turns into a cock roach.
Bob
*high fives Simon* I'm just getting into Crime and Punishment as well. I've completely missed the russians, somehow, so I'm trying to fix that. One dark, layered, cold and shivery work at a time. Seriously! I'll have to go running back to the Salman Rushdie to warm up after this.
Loved Kafka, really can't stand Dickens, except for Tale of Two Cities, and even that I probably wouldn't reread in a hurry.
My vote for the classics? Hmmm. Does Evalyn Waugh count? Probably too recent. Forester? Always worth a go, though he's a bit of a slog sometimes. Kipling is absolutely glorious, provided you can get past the icky colonialist wankiness.
Let's see. Jane Austen is the best and classiest chick lit you'll ever find. Aristophanes has the weirdest, wackiest sense of humour, even for ancient Athens, and I love him so. Shakespeare bored me to tears up until the age of 17 or so, and has thrilled me completely ever since. Voltair, and I know it sounds a bit pretentious to bring him up, but the Candeed gets a rough rep, and it really is a lot of fun.
That's my sleepy, late-night contribution. I'll probably come back with something in complete sentences tomorrow.
What do you think of J. D. Salinger's books or books by Stephenie Meyer. Could you think of any other good ones?
Damn. After what Erin posted, I'm almost not sure who to recommend.
Jane Austen bores me, as does most of Shakespeare, but I'm a sucker for lots of Dickens, (especially David Copperfield). Salman Rushdie is just too witty and sometimes too out there to miss, and if you're a fan of that magically realistic style, try anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. And, though he's probably way too recent for true classic status, I always recommend Vladimir Nabokov when these discussions come up.
If you're looking for something a little less weighty, Louisa May Alcott's novels are always a fun, comfortable read. Watch out for the syruppy moralizing, though.
high fives Resonant, especially on the dickens thing. Dayam he bores the crap outa me. So yeah! Down with dicky dickens, up the russians! Up the russian's what you say? Never mind, let's move on I say...
Little Women and Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, Heidi by Johanna Spyri.
I love Dickens. Just Finished Great Expectations in class. I loved it! Addresses a very good point. I think everyone has some prejudices, and I hate to say, but we should cut it out. Lol! Yes even me. I mean even towards little things we would say it doesn't matter to. Lmao! Um, I read Jane Austin's book Pride and prejudice. I don't like it, it's too much in to Romance to my taste. It's too fluffy, and I don't see the point. Lol! I respect the people that do, so yes. A lot of women are all in to it, and I think that's great!
Here are some I offer to you.
homer: Odyssey
J. R. R. Tolkine: Lord Of The Rings
Hobbit
C. S. Lewis: Narnia
The Lion The
Witch And The Wardrobe
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes
A Study In Scarlet
Tennessee Williams: Glass menagerie
Helen Keller: (don't know if you consider her one) Both books about blindness and other such wonderful fiction.
The Grim Brothers: (or something like it) It's fairy tales
Maya Angelous: (don't know if she's too modern) I think about woman.
Shel Silverstein: poet