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Kurben

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We have been putting down some classics we don't like but which classics do you not only read but really like, even love?

Mark Twain for me and then i mean Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Great Books.
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Books, Kim, Captain Courageous and several others.
Jules Verne. Captain Grants Children, The Mysterious Island and several others.
Alexandre Dumas. Count of Monte Cristo, Three Musketeers, Myladys Son and Vicomte de Bragelonne.
Jack London Call of the wild, Before Adam, White Fang
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The House of Seven Gables
Henry James Turn Of the Screw
John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men, The Pearl, East of Eden,
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Emily Bronte. Wuthering heights
Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House
 
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good stuff..great books..along with London's books,I loved his short story "To build a Fire".. also liked some Hemingway,and Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley..don't know if they are considered classics,but Tolkien's series as well..you are making me want to go and read and get off here!
 
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Dana Jean said:
Gone with the Wind
Interview with a Vampire
Rebecca
Lord of the Flies
To Kill a Mockingbird
Brave New World
1984
The Great Gatsby
Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
Of Mice and Men
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Haunting of Hill House
Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn
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You picked up some that i forget! Of course William Golding and Lord of the Flies and also his The Inheritors has a place. Also some of Dickens and de Mauriers Rebecka.
 
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So, so many. Classics are classic for a reason :) I used to write a monthly column for a writer's workshop, encouraging new writers to read great books! A FEW of my favorites are:

Pride and Prejudice
East of Eden
Vanity Fair
Lolita
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Pretty much all L.M. Alcott
Rebecca
The Great Gatsby
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New world
Lolita
Of Mice and Men
The Handmaid's Tale
The Color Purple
Dracula
The Jungle
Ethan Frome
David Copperfield
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books
The Secret Garden
Walden...

Jeezily crow, I could go on for pages.
 
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skimom2 said:
So, so many. Classics are classic for a reason :) I used to write a monthly column for a writer's workshop, encouraging new writers to read great books! A FEW of my favorites are:

Pride and Prejudice
East of Eden
Vanity Fair
Lolita
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Pretty much all L.M. Alcott
Rebecca
The Great Gatsby
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New world
Lolita
Of Mice and Men
The Handmaid's Tale
The Color Purple
Dracula
The Jungle
Ethan Frome
David Copperfield
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books
The Secret Garden
Walden...

Jeezily crow, I could go on for pages.
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Yep, I would say Fahrenheit 451, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Handmaid's TAle also.
 
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Cannery Row - just read it again recently

Slaughterhouse Five - I've read this one several times

The Island Of Dr Moreau - just read it recently for the first time

Heart Of Darkness - In the documentary about the making of the movie Dr. Moreau, it was mentioned that HG Wells and Joseph Conrad had a falling out over this book. Wells thought Conrad used Dr. Moreau to create the character of Kurtz.
 
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Dostoyevsky
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)...who I think is probably every bit as good as Dosty when it comes to portraying the conflicted human mind
Shakespeare...listen to the work as you read along, worked for me
Hemingway's Old Man & The Sea, Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls..."do you want me to shoot thee, english, it is nothing." heh!
Faulkner...As I Lay Dying...my mother is a fish...now I can get them teeth...many of his other stories
Tolstoy...Anna Karenina: by gymnastics and careful attention to his health he had brought himself to such a point that in spite of his excess in pleasure he looked as fresh as a big glossy green dutch cucumber. Gotta love that line! :)
Ibsen...Doll's House, The Master Builder...and Ibsen is right up there with Dosty & Eliot
Twain...Huck Finn...I've read 21 from Twain...he has a few clunkers, too
Salinger...Catcher
Steinbeck, East of Eden, Of Mice & Men, Grapes
Orwell, 1984
Dickens, Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol
Heller, Catch-22
Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
Nabokov, Bend Sinister
Flaubert, Madame Bovary...I realize it is translation, but his style has me curious: a fine man, a great talker, making his spurs ring as he walked, wearing whiskers that ran into his mustache, his fingers always garnished....or: he ate blackberries along the hedges, minded the geese with a long switch, went haymaking during harvest, ran about in the woods, played
Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Swift, Gulliver's Travels
and probably one of the greatest stories ever told: Cervantes, Don Quixote
Milton, Paradise Lost
Dante, The Inferno
Golding, Lord of the Flies, Darkness Visible
Seuss, Horton Hears a Who, Cat in the Hat
 
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There are many that I've liked:

Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo (my favourite novel of all time).
Mitchell: Gone with the Wind (my favourite English-language novel of all time).
Dickens: Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol
Poe: The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Telltale Heart, many others.
Golding: Lord of the Flies.
Clarke: Childhood's End.
Shelley: Frankenstein.
Stoker: Dracula (although I didn't like it much the first two times I read it, I really liked it the third. Go figure.).
Steinbeck: East of Eden (loved it), Of Mice and Men (favourite), and Grapes of Wrath (enjoyed it).
Tolstoy... I'm currently reading Anna Karenina, and starting to get into it. Still early, but we'll see.
Hugo: Les Misérables.
Austen: Pride and Prejudice (not my favourite, but I liked it alright).
Brontë: Jane Eyre (liked it when I was reading it; can't remember much, though).
Shakespeare: Most of what I've read / seen, except for Titus Andronicus.
Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Orwell: 1984.

I'm sure there are others, but these come to mind.
 
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Always re-reading Dracula and Frankenstein.

The Monk is some great, gory fun. Kinda dumb, but fun. Like these:

The Beetle
The House on the Bordelands
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Melmoth The Wanderer
Varney The Vampire
She
Wake Not The Dead
The Castle of Otranto
Carmilla

Stuff like that.

Love some Steinbeck, little bit o Faulkner

Most of the Beat Generation
All of Raymond Chandler
 
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