ALL ABOUT CLASSIC NOVELS, classic novels you love and hate.. |
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 Apr 14 2007, 12:28 PM
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 this world is unthinkable  Group: Member Posts: 67 Joined: Nov 2006 Member No: 478,200  |
Shakespeare is boring and confusing so is to kill a mocking bird i absolutely hate that book!!!!!!!!! a great and terrible beauty is good im not sure if its a classic novel though
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Apr 14 2007, 03:42 PM
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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorites; I should reread it sometime soon. Same with Orwell's Animal Farm and Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. There's a lot of good classical literature out there.
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Apr 15 2007, 05:47 PM
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i actually like the time machine
and Gulliver's travels :D |
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Apr 15 2007, 05:53 PM
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20,000 leagues under the sea. I loved it. =)
20,000 leagues under the sea. I loved it. =) |
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Apr 15 2007, 06:19 PM
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QUOTE(yrrnotelekktric @ Apr 15 2007, 6:53 PM)  20,000 leagues under the sea. I loved it. =) 20,000 leagues under the sea. I loved it. =) i still have to read that one yet but i own it is it worth it? |
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Apr 16 2007, 10:13 AM
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look for the stars as the sun goes down Group: Member Posts: 493 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 453,963 |
Tristan and Iseult was a good book. it was really good i like vintage classics
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Apr 16 2007, 12:23 PM
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I really liked Pride and Prejudice - one of the first classic novels I was able to read before watching a film about it.
I also liked Of Mice and Men, although I was probably one of the only people in my english group who actually did  . I think it was the fact that we had to do an exam on it meant people automatically asumed it would be boring.
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Apr 19 2007, 06:36 AM
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 Like a record, baby Group: Member Posts: 47 Joined: Jun 2006 Member No: 421,415 |
I adore Shakespeare. Most of my peers hate reading in general, so I don't really listen to their opinions on how much they hate Shakespeare, Wells, Steinbeck, ect.
my favorites? Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Voltaire's Candide are VERY good. Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice are amazing. I loved Dracula, and Animal Farm....though I did find the latter to be a bit creepy. I found Huck Finn to be exceedingly long. It Can't Happen Here-Sinclair Lewis is also VERY good. 
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Apr 24 2007, 06:22 AM
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 What a sick, masochistic lion. Group: Member Posts: 1,853 Joined: Sep 2006 Member No: 460,535 |
Pride and Prejudice is perhaps my favorite. I also liked To Kill A Mockingbird quite a lot... along with Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby. |
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Apr 24 2007, 10:29 PM
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 vivacity Group: Official Member Posts: 3,183 Joined: Jan 2007 Member No: 495,247 |
To Kill A Mockingbird and Of Mice And Men turned out to be pretty good, a bit better than I thought.
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Apr 25 2007, 06:36 AM
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 Don't touch me you drink! Group: Member Posts: 310 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 518,707 |
I absolutely HATED Of Mice and Men rrrarrrr! The Invisible Man, however, I actually liked.
I DO love Shakespeare a lot. 
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Apr 26 2007, 11:11 PM
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 Mr. Bad Guy Group: Member Posts: 38 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 519,021 |
QUOTE(Julia Guila @ Apr 25 2007, 6:36 AM) I absolutely HATED Of Mice and Men rrrarrrr! The Invisible Man, however, I actually liked. I DO love Shakespeare a lot. Completely agree with you. I never understood the importance of that awful book (Of Mice and Men). Steinbeck's East of Eden was much better. |
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Apr 27 2007, 10:28 PM
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 Eastcoast Andy Group: Member Posts: 114 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 445,471 |
I desperately want to finish Anna Karenina but I cannot get into it.
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May 10 2007, 07:00 PM
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 High Voltage!∞ Group: Official Member Posts: 4,728 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,157 |
I hate War of the Worlds
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Aug 20 2007, 08:37 PM
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Frankenstein, Dracula (haven't read it completely, though), A Clockwork Orange, Slaughterhouse-five.
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Aug 20 2007, 11:00 PM
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 Eeeeeh gladiator Group: Member Posts: 104 Joined: Jun 2007 Member No: 538,957 |
I like the Anne of Green Gables Series.
I don't know if that's a classic or anything though. |
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Sep 5 2007, 02:04 AM
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 eternity will never be enough for me. Group: Member Posts: 400 Joined: Mar 2006 Member No: 386,926 |
MOBY DICK CAN KISS MY ASS.
I do not want to read about whale blubber and private parts. Thank God for SparkNotes. Even though I wasted my time reading 40 chapters of this shit. :| |
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Jun 12 2008, 10:00 PM
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 isketchaholic Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 2,977 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 516,154 |
I actually liked Great Expectations, though everyone told me the book suuuuucked. ONE DOWNER = speaking/writing like dickens after reading the book, I swear it f**ks with your grammar and diction and makes you talk like an english gentleman afterwards.
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Jun 12 2008, 10:36 PM
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 [Insert something Witty Here] Group: Member Posts: 363 Joined: Dec 2007 Member No: 598,828 |
I never really liked The Outsiders its too outdated.
I read war of the worlds and never finished it. |
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Jun 22 2008, 12:25 AM
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 Lets Get Dead Group: Member Posts: 381 Joined: Apr 2008 Member No: 641,562 |
Tale of Two Cities - Was alight. Lucy (I think was her name) really pissed me off. She was so shallow and just a typical stupid weak female character.
Great Gatsby - Loved. Oedipus - Loved. Shakespeare - I love most Shakespeare with the exception of Hamlet. I have this thing with hating whiny stupid characters. Love MacBeth. Things Fall Apart - Very good. Gone With The Wind - Horribly long, but absolutely worth it. There are more. Have to think on it. |
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Jun 22 2008, 01:40 AM
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Of Mice and Men was really good! Totally hated the ending, but I can't think of another way to end it.
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Jun 22 2008, 03:38 AM
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QUOTE(karmakiller @ Aug 21 2007, 03:37 AM) Frankenstein, A Clockwork Orange. And Catcher in the Rye, Shakespeare, Count of Monte Cristo...ehhh, I can't think of others right now. 
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Jun 22 2008, 01:11 PM
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Lets Get Dead Group: Member Posts: 381 Joined: Apr 2008 Member No: 641,562 |
I absolutely hated Brave New World. Because of our 11th grade class they no longer teach Lord of the Flies at my old high school.
 I mean come on, a bunch of teenage girls, reading about young boys running around butt naked on an island? Sure, there was some awesome symbolism in there, but for the most part the book bored me. Poor Simon.
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Jun 23 2008, 03:13 AM
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 i've never wanted anything rationale. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 8,449 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 19,045 |
QUOTE(live_it_and_luv_it @ Apr 14 2007, 10:28 AM) Shakespeare is boring and confusing so is to kill a mocking bird i absolutely hate that book!!!!!!!!! UMMM WHAAAAAAT?! GTFO plz. PS, Don't really consider Shakespeare a novelist. It's called plays. |
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Jun 23 2008, 09:31 AM
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 James killed the radio star. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 2,095 Joined: Nov 2007 Member No: 589,855 |
^ Forreal. People who do not like To Kill A Mockingbird are exceptionally loathesome beings.
I really detest Jane Eyre, however. SO dry, and so long. Also, I'm not in anyway a Dickens fan. I just can't get into any of his novels. |
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