classics to me are really difficult to read because of the archaic language. The portrair of Dorian Gray took me like 3 years to finish. The language was so fucking thick, I couldn't get into it.

So I kinda stick to modern classics like The Bell Jar.

Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist... are excellent, but I'd steer well clear of Ulysses. Some wonderful language, but it's not really a good "read". I'd recommend HCH tries Finnegans Wake, mind.

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solzhenitsyn
(whose books have got no tits in)
just died

so maybe read his one day in the life of ivan denisovitch

it's good and very easy to read

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i was going to get this as my next book. it looked interesting from what i read on wikipedia. should i not now?

Wuthering Heights is a great read.

I 3rd Rebecca. It's a bit stiff to make it past the first two chapters though. Just hang in there

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I just finished Rebecca. It was great! One of my new favorite books.

good job. three years of work and you couldn't even remember the fucking title.

Yeah, the language is what I tend to have a problem with. For instance, Robert Louis Stevenson . . . I can't even figure out what he's saying . . . I don't think I ever even managed to get all the way through Treasure Island . . . I just gave up and watched the movie.

without giving away the whole book, i didn't mind book one but book two ruined the whole thing for me. for one, i hate the way one part of it was writen. it's like fitzgerald forgot he was writing a novel in the middle of the book and starting writing it like a play. but then it goes back.

i also feel like he was using the book to flaunt his knowledge of poetry. just rattling off poets all over the place where it really wasn't necessary.

and i didn't like the characters in the book two. every bitch he pitches woo at is worse than the last.

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I'm annoyed at Solzhenitsyn for dying because now when I finally get around to reading The Gulag Archpelago people will think it's because I've only just heard of him.

Thinking of writers from that part of the world, I would recommend Gogol's short stories (usually clumped in some volume as "Diary Of A Madman & Other Stories" or something). They're certainly classics, and not too heavy to read because the translation is very simple, and probably most effective that way.

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But...! Treasure Island is about as accessible as 19th century writing can get. Never mind. Muppet Treasure Island has a lot going for it too.

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Read The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and Middlemarch by George Eliot. You'll thank me.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
It's one of my favourite books. I first read it when I was young and it broke my heart.

Is nobody going to mention Steinbeck?

East of Eden is almost everyone's favorite (though I'm a weirdo and like Tortilla Flat the best).

Also, Gone With the Wind, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

grapes of wrath is the best.