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Do you like to read classics?? If so, which is your favorite classic?

Pride and Prejudice.... And really was so excited when the remake ''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'' came out! Nice trwist to a classic.

Also the Scarlett Letter is awesome

Cath wrote: "Pride and Prejudice.... And really was so excited when the remake ''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'' came out! Nice trwist to a classic.

Also the Scarlett Letter is awesome"

Even my favorite is Pride and Prejudice....I even loved Gone With the Wind :)

I read classics more as a kid. I liked all the childrens classics but not so much the grown up ones.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is quite good.

Would you consider Lord of the Flies to be a classic? I liked that one. Not really into the English aristocrat type classics.

Natalie wrote: "I read classics more as a kid. I liked all the childrens classics but not so much the grown up ones.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is quite good.

Would you consider Lord of the Flies to be a c..."

Haven't read it (Lord pf the Flies).....so dunno.

Lolita was a wonderful read.. the way the story was narrated, i was left amazed!

Anoop wrote: "Lolita was a wonderful read.. the way the story was narrated, i was left amazed!"

Yes....even I enjoyed Lolita a lot!! Really awesome book:)

I loooove classics! My most favorite book EVER is a classic!!! And I spent the first fifteen years of my life reading classics too! :D

Oh, and my most fave book is…*drum rolls* The Scarlet Pimpernel!!!! Hee hee! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

Haven't read that book yet....though have heard LOT about it....but I was never much of a fan of classics...

Quite recently, i finished Three Musketeers... Boy, it was a fun filled read:) however, i loathed To Kill a Mockingbird and Rebecca was an okay read!!!

Same goes with Father Sergius and The Big Sleep .. Both were an okayish book....

I enjoyed most of the classic books I have read. Henry James, Washington Irving and Edith Wharton are among my favorite writers. "The Good Earth" by Pearl Buck, "The Great Gatsby" and Steinbeck's "East of Eden" are in my personal top ten all time favorites from all genres.

Hemingway is another story entirely. I don't enjoy reading his writing.....just can't do it; and I dislike him as a person.

Anoop wrote: "Quite recently, i finished Three Musketeers... Boy, it was a fun filled read:) however, i loathed To Kill a Mockingbird and Rebecca was an okay read!!!"

Loathed To Kill A Mockingbird!! Why.........??Though I read it long back, I don't remember much....but I had loved it!

Well Ruchi, major part of the book was abt the life of that little girl, and very little about the case. While the court part was good, rest all were redundant!!
or so i felt;)

Mine:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Valley Of The Dolls by Jaquelin Susann
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
Mommie Dearest by Christine Crawford

Anoop wrote: "Well Ruchi, major part of the book was abt the life of that little girl, and very little about the case. While the court part was good, rest all were redundant!!
or so i felt;)"

Oh...ok. Even for me, the best part of the book was the court part. I like such books.....:)

@Aaron

I've only read the first and third books from your list....nice books!

Well i have borrowed Catcher in the Rye from justbooks.. Lets see how that goes:)

I love 'em; can't list their works though; as it'll take me an hour at least!

Notably, books by
Nietzsche, DFW, Proust, Dostoevsky, Poe, Tolstoy, Kafka, John Milton, John Donne, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Pratchett, King, Camus, Dickens, Hunter S. Thompson, Asimov, Cormac McCathy, Atwood, Victor Hugo ....etc

Wuthering heights. Dark and awesome!

Ruchi wrote: "Anoop wrote: "Quite recently, i finished Three Musketeers... Boy, it was a fun filled read:) however, i loathed To Kill a Mockingbird and Rebecca was an okay read!!!"

Loathed To Kill A Mockingbird..."

To Kill A Mockingbird was so bad that it made me wonder how it got teh Pulitzer. It took me such a long time to get into the story.

Even though I like classics I feel Austen's Emma and Sense & Sensibility is not the praise.

Aishee wrote: "Ruchi wrote: "Anoop wrote: "Quite recently, i finished Three Musketeers... Boy, it was a fun filled read:) however, i loathed To Kill a Mockingbird and Rebecca was an okay read!!!"

Loathed To Kill..."

I hated Emma actually....and didn't like Sense and Sensibility either.

Among Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey are the best.

I haven't read Northanger Abbey...but Pride and Prejudice is really a classic!:)

Wuthering Heights is my personal all time favorite. It was dark but awesome. I hated but loved Heathcliff. I kind of feel sad for him. He was pathetic !
I quite liked Emma, actually. Her naïveté was what made Emma sucha great and humorous read.

And I hate Tess of D'urbervilles . It was like all that was going in the book was whining ! 'He left me so I can't look pretty'. It was very irritating.

I loved Wuthering Heights too!! It is one of my favorite classics...:)

Yeah :)

Every time I read Wuthering Heights,I start crying. I both hate and love Catherine and Heath's doomed love story.

My favorite classics are Persuasion and Jane eyre. I love wuthering heights too, but it's so sad! :'(

Read wuthering Heights myself!!So ark and tragic but it was awesome!!<3<3<3

I know.. But I think it's the sadness that gives it that touch !
I feel with this particular book- Wuthering Heights- it's the kinda book you either love. Or you hate it. There's no in between !

Well, everyone has their preferences ! Maybe you read the wrong classics or maybe you simply don't like it. That's your choice :)

Esh ! Why would you read that ?
I love classics but that one, I hated ! I cannot leave a book unfinished so I finished it but it took me ages !! It sucked!

Maybe you can give the genre another chance and read the right ones now ? :)

I started reading classics with Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' which is really good. Then went on to Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. I didn't like Tom Sawyer much. I read A Tale of Two Cities after that which is a gem. I read Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Great Expectations, before accidentally crossing path with Pride and Prejudice at a book fair, and the rest is history or in this case, classics :)

Michael wrote: "I seriously doubt I will ever read a classic again.."

There are some pretty good classics out there...maybe you could try out a good one for a change.

Yes, A Tale Of Two Cities is indeed a gem. So is Dickens A Christmas Carol.
I have DC on my shelf, I'm gonna start it next month !

Micheal, it's your choice but seriously. Maybe you should give it another try. I understand why you hate the genre. Hell, I would've hated it if I read The Good Earth first ! God !
There are other some really good ones, too :)

Ah, that thing about the new books is true ! They suck. Poor story, poor writing ! Barely read them.

Classics have their own charisma! The way it is narrated and the language used is astonishing. My personal favourite is Wuthering Heights and Pride and prejudice. I don't think current book heroes can ever compare to Mr. DARCY :P.

I haven't read A Christmas Carol yet. I've been procrastinating on it for years now. But I do know the outline of the story.

I am an anti-fantasy person here. It's like, universally known within the group :P
And I'm not a fan of new books either !

Ipshi- yeah, I read it ages ago ! I'm soon gonna do a re-read ! I forgot most of the book. Wanna BR ?

Sure, Ishu! But can we do it after August? My exams, you know -_-"

Ipshi- sure ! I'm swamped with new books as it is to do a re-read anytime soon. We'll do it whenever you can :)

Micheal- wow. I cannot stand fantasy. I never understood how people could read such crap they know is super-ridiculous and far from reality ? O.o
Anyway, I'm surrounded by fantasy crazy people already. What great difference would another one make ?
Lol :D

I'm not exactly a fantasy fanatic, but I do read them. *tries to pacify Michael*

I didn't mean they don't have problems or that they're insane if that's where u're going with this !
I was kidding, sorry !

No. I meant they're stupid to believe it. I'm not saying everyone who reads fantasy believes it but some does !
And what I mean is that I cannot understand how people can waste so much time reading something that is absolutely and totally superfluous ! I said nothing about believing it or not.
That's a touchy topic here. By now, I know better than to do that :P

Wow this is one heated convo...

Oh I have no interest in throwing myself in lion's den...
p.s I love fantasy as well :D

Okay.. Everyone has their preferences, I'm not saying anything :P

And well, I guess we're all kind of nerds here. But the cool ones *shrug*

Fantasy is a good outlet. It's really good to let loose and go to a world where anything is possible. Even drool worthy vampires and not-so-extinct vampires or some super cool witches ! I cannot read them but it's not like I don't like watching them ! They crack me up. They're fun to watch, in fact.

@everyone - just to remind you this thread is about which classics you like or whether they deserve the praise or not.. Lets ask Ruchi to make another thread for a Fantasy debate shall we??

Na na...I am just a curious observer.... doesn't want to indulge myself in something that I did not start :p

But yeah I read fantasy just for mere enjoyment. XD