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 Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 6:18 pm
Anyone here besides me enjoy books like Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell, or Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain? I've read each and every one of these, and i find them to be fantastic. Who else shares my thoughts? I was thinking of making this thread, because here, we can talk about some of the meanings behind parts in each book, and if someone is having a hard time understanding a part, then someone else can help that person out!
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 11:31 pm
iv'e read huck finn recently. i liked it
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:45 pm
I loved The Colour Purple!!!!
I haven't read any of the others but some of them are part of Eglish classes so I may soonish.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:19 pm
The Color Purple was a great movie.
But another book I like about african americans is Glory Field
it's about a family in slavery time all the way up to 1994. The whole family's life is surronded by Curry Plantation and Glory Field which is the Plantation they work on a Glory Field is a field like a grave yard kinda of their family. Great Book heart
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:20 pm
Out of the ones you've named I've only read the George Orwell books. I always thought he was British. redface It seemed like something a British person would write.
Out of other American classics (that I know of) I've only read The Catcher In The Rye. It seemed like a tough book to read, mostly because I can't even keep up with my own thoughts and they wanted me to keep up with Holden's. I prefer a more definite style... A flowing narration that doesn't start telling a story, turns somewhere completely different and then goes back to the original story by saying: well, that guy, he... etc.
I like Russian Classics otherwise. Ana Karenina, Crime and Punishment, the Idiot... I can't really think of any other books at the moment, I'm focused on maths (more or less)... I'll contribute when it comes back to me.
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:07 pm
Helmorana Out of the ones you've named I've only read the George Orwell books. I always thought he was British. redface It seemed like something a British person would write. Out of other American classics (that I know of) I've only read The Catcher In The Rye. It seemed like a tough book to read, mostly because I can't even keep up with my own thoughts and they wanted me to keep up with Holden's. I prefer a more definite style... A flowing narration that doesn't start telling a story, turns somewhere completely different and then goes back to the original story by saying: well, that guy, he... etc. I like Russian Classics otherwise. Ana Karenina, Crime and Punishment, the Idiot... I can't really think of any other books at the moment, I'm focused on maths (more or less)... I'll contribute when it comes back to me. He IS British. I DID say (or just plain classics) at the end of the title of the thread, didn't I? That means that it's not just for American authors, but classics from other countries xp
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:48 am
Ooops. My bad. smile
Trying to think of more books that would file under classic. I recall I liked Huxley's Brave New World a lot and read it several times. (I found out about the book through Iron Maiden xp ) I hated Flaubert's Madame Bovary... But I love Oscar Wilde to bits. Same with Dickens, at the moment I'm reading A Tale of Two Cities by him and Baudolino by Eco, but Eco doesn't fall in that category I think. Not yet anyway.
Now that I ponder, I don't really know any American classical literature. I'm too stuck up in my European ways to find anything American in the library on purpose... I usually go for Scandinavian or British authors for their sense of humor. Spanish too, for the poetic choice of words in their writing... Do you have any American literature to recommend?
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:07 pm
I love Huckleberry Finn. Sometimes it's alittle hard to understand, because of the vocabulary they use, but if they used regular vocab, the book would suck. I thought The War of the World, was good, but I had to read it for school. So, naturally, I hated it. But now that I look back on it, I think I liked it. whee
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:45 am
Haha, I've read all of those. XD I feel like such a nerd.
Anything by Shakespeare is a classic, as is The Picture of Dorian Gray. Lovely movie as well.
Did I mention that I LOVE Alfred Hitchcock's movies? heart
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:33 pm
The colour purple is a movie...well I guess I'll have to see it now.
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:54 pm
Bellkana The colour purple is a movie...well I guess I'll have to see it now. Oprah Winfry got her big break thanks to that movie, it's very good. 3nodding
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