ALL ABOUT CLASSIC NOVELS, classic novels you love and hate.. Options

[misoshiru]

- Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha
- John Steinbeck's works

i wouldn't exactly call Memoirs of a Geisha a classic novel.


I liked Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. afterall, a HoD passage was picked for my ib oral commentary.

I'm currently studying Equus the play. It's rather strange.

[jeung]

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[Euphoria Rose]

• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Jane Eyre by Emily Bronte
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Bronte, Emily's sister.

My favorites are...
-Pride and Prejudice -Jane Austen
-A Christmas Carol -Charles Dickens
-The Count of Monte Cristo -Alexandre Dumas
-Animal Farm -George Orwell

I've read more than half of Jane Eyre and Sense and Sensibility. So far it's been a really good read. I've also read about ten pages of Emma.

I hated Wuthering Heights. I expected it to be a rather interesting and wonderfully written novel, but it wasn't. It was dreadfully long and tedious, but I still finished it.

[much2muse]

where the red fern grows. not sure if its exactly a classic, but its great.

and as others have mentioned, to kill a mockingbird.

[*mzkandi*]

To Kill a Mockingbird
Grapes of Wrath
Catcher in the Rye
Night
The Great Gatsby
Beloved
Les Miserables

[*jooleeah*]

I actually hated Animal Farm. Maybe I'll reread it.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Night, and The Great Gatsby were good.

I've wanted to read Fahrenheit 451 since seventh grade. Maybe I'll start up on that this summer.

[loopylandscapes4...]

I like some things of shakespeare and homer...
but most of the books I like aren't classics...

[Gigi]

I'm currently reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. His short stories are fantastic, and I would expect his books to be just as fantastic. I love it so far.

[mahokaida]

I hated Wuthering Heights. I expected it to be a rather interesting and wonderfully written novel, but it wasn't. It was dreadfully long and tedious, but I still finished it.

Dude, that is my favorite book. Hah! I complete disagree. I thought it was definitely wonderfully written. At first I thought it would be a little too romantic, but I loved how haunting it was. Sure, it was a bit confusing and the story could be slow at times, but the second half of the book was perfect. I found it so powerful and so...human. I loved it. Ah well, we all have our own opinions, I suppose .

gigiopolis, I love Farenheit 451 as well! Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

My favorite classic novels are as follows: Wuthering Heights, To Kill a Mockingbird, Farenheit 451, and Crime and Punishment (which I'm still reading).

The best thing about classic novels is that you can get them so cheap at used bookstores! I love it.

[Sheida]

To Kill a Mockingbird is very good, along with Farenheit 451.

To go further back in time I would say, The Count of Monte Cristo is a great book, and Treasure Island.

[*yrrnotelekktric*]

^ to kill a mocking bird!
i <3 this book.

[goodcharlotte]

To Kill A Mockingbird was an excellent book in my opinion and apparently so do someone of you guys. I liked the overall theme and the title was quite creative. I liked the story and the atmosphere of the story. Very well written.

[xtrancie]

i like the classic Les Miserables. such an awsome novel

i hated Moby Dick -___-

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

I HATE Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

It's so boring! It took me an hour to read up to page 12. And I'm getting tested on it EVERY WEDNESDAY.

[myWings510]

We're reading "The Scarlet Letter" for my English class.

Ehh, I dunno.. a lot of the words are hard to understand because it was written in like the 1700s or something. They used the most extravagent words @_@

But I guess I feel myself getting smarter every chapter I read.. haha.

[much2muse]

Catcher in the rye
To kill a mockingbird
the great gatsby

<3 those

[synthase]

do Matilda and The BFG count?

[sprezzatura]

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare:
Oh, I love it. I guess I like stories with complicated romantic relationships.

Animal Farm by George Orwell:
Well, I read this before I even learned anything about communism, so I was really confused at first, but after learning it, I seem to be getting it. I like it too, especially it's an allegory.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck:
Not sure if you call this a classic, but this book is short and easy, a little bit sad at the end, but I still like it.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee:
I actually dislike this book, maybe it's long and kinda fluffy? I have no problem with the plot but there are too many characters for me to identify especially I had to read it for school in such a short period of time.

Night by Elie Wiesel:
That is such a depressing story, especially I read it when I learned about the Holocaust in history class. That is a book I would recommend though, whether it's considered as classic or not.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare:
I personally don't like archaic language and I think the story is okay, but I neither like nor dislike it.

The Odyssey by Homer:
I only read excerpts, but epic isn't my thing to read.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne:
That book totally puts me to sleep. Hawthorne just elaborates too much, IMO. And I like things short and easy. Maybe it's that his writing style isn't my type. Not a bad book, but I don't like it.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller:
I love this book. It's a play, it's easy, awesome. The witch stuff kinda motivates me to read it.

Huck Finn by Mark Twain:
I have trouble understanding Jim. I LOATHED THIS BOOK. TOM SAWYER FTW!

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan:
I liked certain stories in the book, but some are boring.

Candide by Voltaire:
I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH. Enough said, I just love it.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry:
This book is simply awesome. It's easy to comprehend and Hansberry captures the personality of each character perfectly. It's short enough so it won't bore me.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald:
It's an okay book for me, perhaps I would like it a lot more if I don't have to read it for school. I still think Gatsby is a coward.

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger:
I freakin love Holden. Enough said. It is interesting enough for me to stay awake when I read it, even it's for school.

[QueenAkahsa]

I totally and completely LOVE Charles Dickens.
Like.. A Christmas Carol, or my very favourite Great Expectations, etc.
Also, Oscar Wilde ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I totally love Victor Hugo - Notre Dame du Paris <3~
Not to mention Alexandre Dumas, who wrote marvelously.

And my dear Poe. How I love him :)
And well, a little less classical, but I love Dostoievski.

I am currently reading Pride and Prejudice which seems really good ^_^

[eavesdroppers]

I like to read the "classics" just to have had read them... I've read quite a few, but I'm in need of new ideas.

Which are some of the best "classic" books you've read?

[*Kathleen*]

Read anything by William Faulkner. I suppose his stuff isn't that old, but still. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has always been a favorite of mine, as well as A Tale of Two Cities. Those, I know, are definitely considered classics.

[*Azarel*]

John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany is absolutely amazing, by anyone's standards. J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye is a must read (you'll either absolutely love it or completely hate it). I haven't been reading enough lately to suggest anything else.

[*Duchess of Dork*]

Topics Merged :)

Classics? Hmm.. off the top of my head I'll go with Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Voltaire's Candide.

[MeltChocolate]

I really like To Kill A Mockingbird and Animal Farm. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is also a good one. I'm hoping to reread all of them in the near future.

[*mishyerr*]

The Scarlet Letter and Wuthering Heights.