ALL ABOUT CLASSIC NOVELS, classic novels you love and hate.. |
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 Feb 26 2006, 05:52 AM
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Hallo, just want to talk about books, i havent found anyone to talk to about it lately..
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Feb 26 2006, 10:36 AM
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i like shakespeare
i know im a nerd but shakespeare is great |
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Feb 26 2006, 10:47 AM
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RJL<3 Group: Member Posts: 1,194 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 71,019 |
i quite like robert cormier.
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Feb 26 2006, 12:19 PM
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i liked the scarlet pimpernel and pride and prejudice (:
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Feb 26 2006, 01:04 PM
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QUOTE(The Name's Billy @ Feb 26 2006, 10:36 AM)  i like shakespeare i know im a nerd but shakespeare is great I ADORE Shakespeare. -Hamlet -Othello -Julius Caesar -The Merry Wives of Windsor -As You Like It -The Sonnetts Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Homer - The Illiad George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie Dante - The Divine Comedy Charles Dickins - A Christmas Carol Bram Stoker - Dracula Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray Franz Kafka: -The Metamorphosis -The Trial F. Scott Fitzgerald: -The Great Gatsby -This Side of Paradise |
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Feb 26 2006, 01:50 PM
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Dude, Shakespeare is awesome. I just finished reading The Merchant of Venice and I'm halfway through Othello.
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Feb 26 2006, 02:22 PM
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shakespeare is good i must admit. most of my classmates hate all the books.
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Feb 26 2006, 02:24 PM
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I have to read A Tale of Two Cities next year for IB lit, which shall suck. I started it before, but it was dreadfully dull since Dickens got paid by the word. I'm not looking forward to that. I can make it though most books, but I never managed to finish Wuthering Heights, either. Unlike just about everyone else I know, I actually liked Jane Eyre, but then again, it could be because I was raised to, like Gone With the Wind, which was also good. I wouldn't really count Orwell as classic, but 1984 and Animal Farm were great, of course. (Some of his essays weren't bad either.) I do loathe Huck Finn and The Hobbit is ridiculously tedious. The Great Gatsby was great, no matter what the juniors who are reading it now say. The Jungle was a lot better than I expected. I should have taken the time to really read it. Damn my procrastination. Was it just me, or did The Scarlet Letter not have much of a plot? Vastly disappointing. I thought it was about the adultery, not the lack of anything that occured afterwards. Farenheit 451 was good. I need to finish Catch-22, but what I've read thus far was quite funny. What else have I read...?
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Feb 26 2006, 07:24 PM
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QUOTE(Statues/Shadows @ Feb 26 2006, 2:24 PM) I have to read A Tale of Two Cities next year for IB lit, which shall suck. I started it before, but it was dreadfully dull since Dickens got paid by the word. rofl.  Dickens actually has some ok stuff. And IB lit sucks -- I think only about 3/47283934 books we have to read are actually interesting.People dislike The Great Gatsby? WTF? I forgot about Catch-22. |
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Feb 26 2006, 07:33 PM
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Yeah, Christmas Carol was alright...I think I liked it, but it was a while ago, so I don't really remember.
I was actually looking forward to IB lit, though. It seemed much more promising than language (although that was better than I expected, too). I think the people who dislike The Great Gatsby are the sort who dislike reading in general, which is why they're only taking honors language arts. I actually enjoy it, so I took the junior class as a sophomore to do IB. |
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Feb 26 2006, 09:38 PM
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I love Jane Eyre too, i like Charlotte most among the three Brontes. I like it because it's not superficial. I'm taking a break from reading right now bacause my sight is troubling me..I'd better stop using the computer too. You guys should read Bram Stoker's Dracula, it's the best. Maurice by E M Forster deals with homosexuality and gay guys were called OSCAR WILDE SORT back then. I love the book and I want to watch the movie.
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Feb 26 2006, 10:06 PM
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Statues/Shadows: Tale of Two Cities is a REALLY good book. its just slow in the beginning.
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Feb 26 2006, 11:30 PM
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1984, naturally. Probably one of the best novels ever written.
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Feb 26 2006, 11:32 PM
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QUOTE(lidoxangie @ Feb 26 2006, 8:06 PM) Statues/Shadows: Tale of Two Cities is a REALLY good book. its just slow in the beginning.  I disliked that book, a lot. It was not only boring in the beginning, but throughout the whole damn book!!I love all things Shakespeare. |
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Feb 27 2006, 03:12 PM
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Ah, well, I guess I have no choice but to give A Tale of Two Cities another chance
 I really want to reread 1984 and Animal Farm. |
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Feb 27 2006, 05:31 PM
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 im not crazy im just a lil unwell... Group: Member Posts: 88 Joined: Feb 2006 Member No: 382,236 |
shakespeares comedies and tradgedies are more appealing than his romances and others but i must say i have finished all his works or most im sure there are some unpublished works of his that he had the mind of a genius of the arts something lke that comes with great inspiration and i admire him
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Feb 27 2006, 06:15 PM
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QUOTE(Classical Twist @ Feb 26 2006, 12:50 PM) Dude, Shakespeare is awesome. I just finished reading The Merchant of Venice and I'm halfway through Othello.
Good good books. You stole my list, lol. But those would have to be some personal top classical favorites. |
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Feb 28 2006, 08:56 PM
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I'm reading Twelfth Night by Shakespeare and I've read As You Like It. Shakespeare is actually pretty neat to read. I like his writing.
I don't read many classics, but here are some I like: -Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -Edgar Allen Poe's poems I want to read Jane Eyre by Emily Bronte, but I haven't gotten hold of it yet. |
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Feb 28 2006, 09:02 PM
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Only thing I even remotely liked in The Tale of Two Cities is Syndey Carton, who I think is a kickass character.
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Feb 28 2006, 10:55 PM
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 You can't keep running from what you're trying to find. Group: Official Member Posts: 5,030 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 54,096 |
i'm reading pride and prejudice right now... it's pretty good.
moll flanders was really... pointless... 
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Mar 1 2006, 04:03 PM
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Oh yeah, I forgot about Poe. I like most of his stuff.
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Mar 1 2006, 04:43 PM
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Poe didn't write any novels.
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Mar 1 2006, 05:11 PM
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QUOTE(Statues/Shadows @ Mar 1 2006, 4:43 PM) Poe didn't write any novels. Shakespeare didn't either, but a lot of people, including myself, mentioned him. |
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Mar 1 2006, 06:35 PM
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 crushed. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,432 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 20,026 |
Hmm..
To Kill A Mockingbird The Great Gatsby The Things They Carried Les Miserables Crime and Punishment Hamlet East of Eden |
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Mar 1 2006, 06:55 PM
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 hi. call me linda. Group: Official Member Posts: 8,187 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,475 |
Oh, I really like Shakespeare too. In fact, the english class I'm in right now is all about Shakespare's plays. We've finished reading Othello, are in the midst of King Lear.
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