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 Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:12 pm
I'm taking the college-level English course at my high school & we read so many books & plays. I really love classic literature, it's fantastic how universal the topics are.
Right now we're reading Tess of the d'Ubervilles. I began not liking the novel, but I'm 180 pages into it & it's fantastic. We just finished Macbeth & Midsummer's Night Dream. Before that we were in a William Faulkner kick.
Anyone else really like classical literature? The Great Gatsby, 1984, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Frankenstein, Death of a Salesman, Dollhouse, etc?
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:19 pm
19th century British lit= love.
Austen, Dickens, Wilde: all of it, I love it! The prose, the dialogue, the society: all of it is wonderful.
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:40 am
I love the classics/literary fiction! Particularly the Russian authors (Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Turgenev etc) -- I really enjoy the melancholy in their writing. I'm currently reading Great Expectations by Dickens, he's becoming one of my fave authors. I also liked Melville's Moby-d**k when I read it, and H.G. Wells, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Jerome K. Jerome. I also like the fantastical authors (almost 20th century era), like Lord Dunsany and William Hope Hodgson.
I should read Austen again. Pride and Prejudice was a bore, but I had to analyze it in high school. >_<;; That turned me off, but I think I should give her another chance...
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:06 pm
I love Austen's novels, though I'm still working through them all. I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now, and so far it's great. I'm also reading Anne of Green Gables (I'm sure that's classified as classical literature, right? Correct me if I'm wrong) which is fantastic. It's fun to read because my mother grew up in Prince Edward Island, and I went and visited the place for the first time last summer.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:49 pm
I've had a good taste of most of those authors. Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment has to be one of my favorites (it's close with 1984). I know that soon we're starting Capote, but who knows what's in store.
I really do love the set up of my class. We read many classic novels/plays/short stories, & then we analyze it. We completely tear what we read to pieces. It's not like a teacher doing it for us, My classmates & myself sit in the back of a room & completely talk about what we read.. It's like a Reading club only we're getting graded on it.
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:49 am
I LOVE 19th century British lit, or all British lit for that matter. I've been reading and rereading Dickens and Austen for years, as well as other authors. My favorites are A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, and Pride and Prejudice. But I love a bunch of them.
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 4:33 pm
One of my favorite books in the entire world is Crime and Punishment. I read it a few years ago and then this year I had to read it for my Lit. exam at school. I just love how complex and detailed it is. I read it both in English and Hebrew [I'm from Israel] and I'd read it in Russian if I could.
Other than that, Jane Austin is brilliant as well as Lewis Carroll [Alice in Wonderland is another favorite of mine].
I've tried Tolstoy [Anna Karenina] but got bored. Has this happened to anyone else?
And last thing, MACBETH RULES!
I am so gonna major in Literature when I go to college...
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:50 pm
There's some classic lit I like and some I don't, just like with any other division of books, but I hit a snag last semester when I finally realized I don't like Shakespeare. After two semesters of a play a week, it hit me, I'm a narrative person, not a character person.
Alas, no Shakespeare for me.
But I do like Steinbeck and Twain, and even Gabriel Garcia Marquez (with a good translation). Yet my favorites are old classics- like Homer and Ovid. I'm headed in roughly that direction for my thesis. They really ignite ideas, even through the sometimes cryptic use of meter. The poet in me loves them!
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:48 am
I love classic 20th century authors that center around politics and dark humor. My personal favs: Ayn Rand, Sylvia Plath, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Burgess, George Orwell, etc. They're all witty, and some are very humorous, while some just have interesting ideas.
I'm currently reading Flowers for Algernon and Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death.
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