Summer Reading "Classics"

[JanieDough]

Part voluntary and part nothing else to do because I don't have cable or internet at home, I've been trying to read all these "Classics" I bought and never read.

They've just been sitting on my shelf reminding me of yet another ambition I let fall to the wayside.

However, this summer I've been reading them.

I just finished The Education of Little Tree. It was kind of dull, but towards the end I got used to the vernacular and characters enough to laugh and cry.

I've read all the Jane Austen I can get my hands on except Persuasion - I just can't get through it. I've also read all the Bronte's. I've read some Dickens and even some Shakespeare. I've attempted Anna Karenina like fifty times, and I just can't do it - especially since some one told me how it ends.

My past "Classic" favorites are The Count of Monte Cristo and any Dumas.


Have you guys read any classics lately? If so, did you like them?

Or is there a classic out there you always wanted to read, but never have?

What would you guys consider "Classics"?

 

[Peter Parka]

Good for you.:thumbup Nothing I hate more than people who have a load of classic sitting on their shelf that they never read but for some reason think it makes them look intellectual or something.
Dont really know how old a book has to be to be considered a classic but older books I I like are Lord of the Rings and Dubliners

 

[JanieDough]

Good for you.:thumbup Nothing I hate more than people who have a load of classic sitting on their shelf that they never read but for some reason think it makes them look intellectual or something.
Dont really know how old a book has to be to be considered a classic but older books I I like are Lord of the Rings and Dubliners

I found a list of books considered "Classics" and Stephen Kind and Ron Hubbard were on them...so I have no clue.

The Dubliners by James Joyce?

 

[Peter Parka]

The Dubliners by James Joyce?

Yeah, thats the one, its a collection of short stories, great book.:thumbup

 

[JanieDough]

cool - I'm going to try it! I have it, just hadn't picked it up...I was dreading James Joyce.

 

[Wilfred Richard]

Middlemarch
Sons and Lovers
Women In Love
Gulliver's Travels
The Three Musketeers
Bleak House
Sister Carrie
Othello
Ethan Frome
The Potrait Of A Lady
Tom Jones
The Radical
King Solomon's Mines
A Tale Of Two Cities
Alice In Wonderland
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Lord Jim
Victory
Little Women
Pride And Prejudice...


These are a few of the classics I have.
I'll make a more detailed list later?

 

[Zorak]

I can't stand Dumas!
I've tried so many times to read Monte Cristo and the Three Musketeers, but I just can't get into it. I got a 2:2 on the exam for it, I regret not trying harder to read them now lol.

This summer I will try to read Don Quixote again. I was supposed to have read it for the past 2 years, but I can't get more than 200 pages in. This year, however, the exam is apparantly heavily linked to the text... So I can't blag my way through

 

[JanieDough]

I can't stand Dumas!
I've tried so many times to read Monte Cristo and the Three Musketeers, but I just can't get into it. I got a 2:2 on the exam for it, I regret not trying harder to read them now lol.

This summer I will try to read Don Quixote again. I was supposed to have read it for the past 2 years, but I can't get more than 200 pages in. This year, however, the exam is apparantly heavily linked to the text... So I can't blag my way through

Three Musketeers - no thanks! And oops - I mean Camus!!! I get the two names confused ALL the time. because I am a dumasS.

I've always wanted to read Don Quixote, but I feel like it won't be good so I haven't been able to try it.


Ever feel like books have a force field around them and you just can't get past the force field to read em?

 

[Abcinthia]

Classics I have and read (if I don't read a book, I just give it to charity)
The Odyessey
Wuthering Heights
Pride And Prejudice
Dracula
Edgar Allen Poe - Selected Stories
Sense and Sensibility
Emma

I've read a lot of Shakespeare but I don't own them.

And Children's Classics (my mum got me a set when I was about 6):
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avelonia (i know it's spelt wrong, I'll edit it later)
The Jungle Book
Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Wind and the Willows
Heidi
Heidi Grows Up
What Katy Did
What Katy Did Next
What Katy Did At School
Black Beauty
Alice In Wonderland

 

[JanieDough]

I love the Secret Garden

 

[Abcinthia]

I love the Secret Garden

It was one of my favourite books as a child. I read it to Imogen earlier this year as a bedtime story as well. Even though I think she's too young to understand most of it!

 

[Wilfred Richard]

I'm reading Nicholas Nickelby, now.


Regards,
Richard.

 

[lusira2bisai2]

Whoa I LOVE the secret garden!!!!!!!I don't know...i guess it's because like a lonely girl...then you find this 'magical' place....classic classic classic!Love it.
Well my definition of classics has to be books that are...thick..and the writing style is like long,formal,long....i guess lord of the rings can b one,though i haven't read it.should i?And um,toby alone by timothee de fombelle?personally i don't really like it..but then after thinking i guess it's ok..like imaginative...though i'm not sure abt the violet parts.some more books!but cannot really remember now..

 

[lusira2bisai2]

violet=violent