Classics are often classics for a reason. They are good!!!! But some kind of stick with you and you return to them or perhaps not but you remember them clearly. So i picked my five faves from the bunch of great books that the ages has given us. With classics i mean books that have been around for awhile. For example i, for my part, wouldn't consider Harper Lee or Steinbeck as Classics. definitely modern classics but not classics.
This is my list with no particular order.
1. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
3. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
4. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
5. The Idiot by Fjodor Dostoyevskij
contenders: Call of the Wild by Jack London and Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
Now, come on and tell me how wrong i am and how could you not include that book and so on. I cant help feeling that when it comes to books we are just ants standing on the shoulders of giants and still not reaching higher. I dont include King in that assessment. He has actually taken the much abused horrorgenre to new levels. He is a giant in his own right!!
This is my list with no particular order.
1. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
3. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
4. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
5. The Idiot by Fjodor Dostoyevskij
contenders: Call of the Wild by Jack London and Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
Now, come on and tell me how wrong i am and how could you not include that book and so on. I cant help feeling that when it comes to books we are just ants standing on the shoulders of giants and still not reaching higher. I dont include King in that assessment. He has actually taken the much abused horrorgenre to new levels. He is a giant in his own right!!
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