ALL ABOUT CLASSIC NOVELS, classic novels you love and hate.. |
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 Mar 1 2006, 07:03 PM
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QUOTE(Teesa @ Mar 1 2006, 6:35 PM)  Hmm.. To Kill A Mockingbird The Great Gatsby The Things They Carried Les Miserables Crime and Punishment Hamlet East of Eden I like some of those, I read To Kill A Mockingbird, and The Great Gatsby. |
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| *Statues/Shadows* |
Mar 1 2006, 07:08 PM
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I still can't figure out why everyone who read it this year hated The Great Gatsby. We liked it last year
 The irritating thing about To Kill a Mockingbird is that it was the first book I ever had to annotate, so I spent so much time trying to do that right that it completely ruined the book for me. |
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Mar 1 2006, 07:09 PM
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Pride and Prejudice.
and Emma...I forgot the author to that. |
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Mar 1 2006, 07:36 PM
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Both of those were written by Jane Austen...
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Mar 1 2006, 10:54 PM
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QUOTE(Statues/Shadows @ Mar 1 2006, 7:08 PM) I still can't figure out why everyone who read it this year hated The Great Gatsby. We liked it last year I actually liked The Great Gatsby. Maybe it was because I wasn't forced to read it for school and I read it because I wanted to (because I had chosen that book to do for a paper.) |
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| *Statues/Shadows* |
Mar 2 2006, 03:47 PM
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I'm reading Ethan Frome right now, but I'm only on page 12, so I can't fairly pass jusdgement yet. However, it really wasn't holding my interesting this morning. I nearly fell asleep reading it, but then again, could be because it was a morning class and I stupidly decided to lay down on the floor to be comfortable (because that;s bound to be sanitary in a school and all).
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Mar 2 2006, 03:52 PM
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eh, I'm not a very bigg classic novel fan. I liked Little Women & Robinson Crusoe, but that's about it.
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Mar 2 2006, 04:33 PM
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QUOTE(Statues/Shadows @ Mar 1 2006, 7:36 PM) Both of those were written by Jane Austen... . I thought only Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen....oh well
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Mar 2 2006, 08:43 PM
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One of my favorite books of all time is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'classic novels' and what time period you're reffering to, but if it counts, my number one favorite is White Fang by Jack London and Call of the Wild by Jack London was also really good.
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Mar 2 2006, 10:04 PM
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QUOTE(Paradox of Life @ Mar 2 2006, 8:43 PM) One of my favorite books of all time is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'classic novels' and what time period you're reffering to, but if it counts, my number one favorite is White Fang by Jack London and Call of the Wild by Jack London was also really good. I love White Fang and Calll of the Wild, with the former being my favorite of the two. They were great books, I read them back in 6th grade, I should pick them up again. I don't think this would be considered as "classic", but I love the Anne of Green Gables series =D. I'm not a fan of Little Women, it didn't interest me and I ditched it halfway through. Jane Austen has written: Northanger Abbey Sense and Sensibilty Pride and Prejudice Emma and a couple of other books, but I can't remember their names. All of her books are pretty similar, but I love the ones that I've read so far. |
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Mar 2 2006, 10:07 PM
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And "Persuasion"
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Mar 2 2006, 11:42 PM
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^Oh I have that on my book shelf but I haven't read it yet (I'm waiting to finish my book now)
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Mar 4 2006, 06:20 PM
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QUOTE(Kristinaa @ Mar 2 2006, 10:07 PM) And "Persuasion" I can't believe I forgot Persuasion, I have that in my bookshelf as well. I just went to the bookstore today and bought Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, and 1984 by George Orwell to add to my collection =D. |
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Mar 4 2006, 07:07 PM
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mmm, I read The Jungle this summer. Well, kind of. I procrastinated the entire summer away, so I had to skim through and take notes, but it took longer than I meant it too because I actually became interested at one point and tried to read it. Thus, the beginning is a bit slow, but it's pretty good.
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Mar 4 2006, 09:44 PM
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QUOTE(Teesa @ Mar 1 2006, 3:35 PM) Hmm.. To Kill A Mockingbird The Great Gatsby The Things They Carried Les Miserables Crime and Punishment Hamlet East of Eden Hey cool, I'm reading that right now. Pretty good book in my opinion. |
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Mar 6 2006, 04:39 PM
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Albert Camus - The Stranger was pretty good.
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Mar 6 2006, 04:42 PM
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Camus is a really fascinating writer.
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Mar 7 2006, 09:58 AM
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once again i noe im a complete dork but Cyrano DeBergerac is good too i noe it sounds retarded but it has great poetry in it Amazing. I read it in French and English but i have to say the French version is better. A Play in a Play with Cyrano a patron of the arts its great.
and To Kill A Mockingbird. Amazing. TRuely Amazing. I Read it in 3rd grade and did not really get the essence but i reread it in 5thgrade it was great amazing quite Brilliant. |
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Mar 7 2006, 05:03 PM
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QUOTE(mipadi @ Mar 6 2006, 4:42 PM) Camus is a really fascinating writer. He reminds me of Kafka. |
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Mar 7 2006, 05:19 PM
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Anything Chuck Palahniuk. Grabbed my attention.
Yeah, Pride&Prejudice was fun, also. |
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Mar 7 2006, 06:08 PM
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The Stranger was pretty good, too. Call of the Wild is another one of my favorites, but I have to reread that one, since we read it in the sixth grade or something.
Mm, our class just finished Beloved. What a strange book. |
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Mar 7 2006, 09:07 PM
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George Orwell and Anthony Burgess. Needless to say I'm a utopian book whore. My three favorites of all time are 1984, Animal Farm, and a Clockwork Orange.
EDIT: Oh yeah anything by Isaac Asimov is pretty good too. |
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Mar 7 2006, 10:07 PM
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QUOTE(Teesa @ Mar 1 2006, 4:35 PM) Hmm.. To Kill A Mockingbird The Great Gatsby The Things They Carried Les Miserables Hamlet Well I love all of these books/plays minus The Things They Carried. Now, I thought it was an interesting book, but I just didn't really like it. I wasn't a fan of the writing style and I just wasn't meshing well with it. |
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Mar 8 2006, 12:04 AM
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I read Ethan Frome on Sunday, and I'm not quite sure whether I liked it or not. An odd thing to say, I know, but it's just sort of bleh, yet has some really interesting aspects.
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Mar 9 2006, 08:50 AM
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im not crazy im just a lil unwell... Group: Member Posts: 88 Joined: Feb 2006 Member No: 382,236 |
i noe u may call me crazy but personally i think Dr.Suess is a classic sure not novels but his books were amazing the Shakespeare for children
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