Reading YA, Writing YA, and Being Totally Awesome discussion

I gave high marks here on Goodreads to The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. There's an adjustment to be made for the intentionally archaic language, but let yourself be drawn into the story and characters, and you'll find yourself on a journey to rival any other in literature. Believe me, learning to adapt to the book's peculiar language patterns is supremely worth the effort.

I first read it in fourth grade, and knew immediately it was a good one. It makes me want to read other Howard Pyle novels, such as Men of Iron.

Plus, if The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood is good enough to get Buster Baxter to love reading, you know it has to be good! :-) "I mean Blue? Come on!" ;-)

Jane Eyre and Mary Poppins

I was hoping to read Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers before going to see Saving Mr. Banks in the theater, but I don't think I'll have the time. I'm sure I'll eventually read it, though.

Alas, I've literally read two. Well, I'm reading Wuthering Heights so like three? My favourite is Alice in Wonderland because it's so odd. I like odd.

Of course, "Classic" is an ambiguous term. Is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone a classic? How about The Hunger Games? Incident at Hawk's Hill?

"Standing the test of time" is a vague qualification, though. Does that mean fifty years? A hundred?

Oh, it wasn't your fault, Layla. My meaning is that it's impossible to pinpoint exactly what is and isn't a classic; many would say The Hunger Games already is a modern classic, while others would agree with your view of the book's status in that respect. So the word "Classic" is probably always going to be vague in its meaning.

@Josiah it only takes an hour or two to read :) I saw the movie today and I enjoyed it 10x more than the people I saw it with because I'd read the book

I'll have to consider that, then. Part of the time commitment in my reading a book, though, is the writing and subsequent editing process for my Goodreads review. I put a lot of energy into my reviews, and many of them take upwards of five or six hours of solid writing and revision to complete.

Surprisingly, I've never read a classic XD

My favourite classics are:

Jane eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen (and any other book by her)
North and south by Elizabeth Gaskell
The count of monte cristo by Alexandre dumas
The three musketeers and its sequel Twenty Years After by alexandre dumas