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09-04-2006, 05:59 PM
|  | Part-time narcoleptic | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oxford and London, of the cold old UK
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| | | The Master and Margarita- just because its in translation doesn't mean its not a classic!
I agree with lots of the named ones above- got to add Frankenstein though (its actually a pretty decent novel- its not just all about some guy lurching about with bolts in his neck). And if you are going with Austen, I put my vote in for Northanger Abbey. |
09-04-2006, 07:04 PM
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| | | Dracula
Picture of Dorian Gray
Howards End
Moll Flanders
Nineteen Eighty Four |
09-04-2006, 09:32 PM
|  | with CLUB SAUCE | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: your pants
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Originally Posted by Dig For Fire is that vivian leigh in your av? it's been bothering me. | yes it is haha
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09-04-2006, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by HighClassHo Medea. Love it. It's my favorite classic ever. I just love her anger, what right do people have to betray one another?? I can totally relate to her. | I just read an outtake from it, I was just about to look if we have it in whole. Oh the anger, I can't breath normally when reading it. |
09-08-2006, 12:24 AM
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| | | The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
The Belljar
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Winne-the-Pooh, & The House at Pooh Corner
Fahrenheit 451
Of Mice and Men
Little Women |
09-08-2006, 12:28 AM
|  | Miss Pee | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Perth,Western australia
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| | | Medea and Hecabe are a favourite |
09-08-2006, 08:53 AM
|  | saint or celebrity? | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: croydon, basically.
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| | | wuthering heights
nineteen eighty four
alice in wonderland & through the looking glass |
09-08-2006, 10:34 AM
|  | HOT PATOOTIE | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: milan
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| | | absolutely Gone With The Wind, then
1984
war and peace
dracula
anna kerenina |
09-08-2006, 08:08 PM
|  | inanimate | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | I really love Little Women. |
09-08-2006, 08:39 PM
|  | here be some words | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: go move to russia
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Originally Posted by Destroyer anna karenina | wonderful! also: huck finn, eugene onegin, lolita, and the lost world.
oh! and frankenstein. and the good earth, too. i'll stop there.
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09-08-2006, 11:05 PM
|  | THRILLHO | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by waxmyanus Crime and Punishment, All Quiet on the Western Front |
Those are two of my favorite books.
Also The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Slaughterhouse Five. |
09-08-2006, 11:54 PM
|  | ***PURR*** | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Calgary, AB Canada
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| | | I would recommend anything by James Joyce...The Dubliners is my favourite.
I also love Poe and Plath...though she is more modern.
I would read something by Hemmingway...The Sun Also Rises is amazing.
There are also a lot of good english anthologies that universities and colleges use. The ones by Norton are incredible and have a sample of everything from Beowulf to Shakespeare to Swift to Joyce to Bronte.
I was an english major in one of my many lifetimes... |
09-09-2006, 01:35 PM
|  | disappearing one | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Scotland
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Originally Posted by Insomnia The Master and Margarita- just because its in translation doesn't mean its not a classic! | How bizarre, I was reading through this thread for book-buying inspiration and moments before I read your post, I spotted this book on amazon (under the category of 'Customers who bought "Immortality" by Milan Kundera also bought...'). Sorry, just a totally random coincidence. Normally I'd not have given it a second glance, here or on amazon. You've won me over into checking it out and buying it by the sheer timing of me reading this thread (which is actually kinda bad, really, I need to be more open to books).
I loved "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"; that seems to have classic status despite being in translation. I'm just re-reading it now actually.
I don't read enough fiction these days. I'm just about to order 1984 because I felt it's about time I read it.
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09-09-2006, 01:50 PM
| | here be some words | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: go move to russia
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Originally Posted by Black Mambo I don't read enough fiction these days. I'm just about to order 1984 because I felt it's about time I read it. | tell us how you like it. that book took my friend half a decade to finish. i think it's still in process, actually. |
09-09-2006, 02:03 PM
|  | I survived from Avalon | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Finland
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| | | Bell Jar, Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Dalloway..among som others. |
09-09-2006, 02:37 PM
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| | | tess of the d'urbervilles
the awakening
wuthering heights
a seperate peace
1984
a confederacy of dunces
as i lay dying
lady chatterley's lover
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09-09-2006, 06:46 PM
|  | gypsy lips, gypsy lips | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Kent, UK
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Originally Posted by Cheshire Cat Have you read Wide Sargasso Sea? Jean Rhys wrote it because she was pissed off about the portrayal of Antoinette (Mrs. Rochester) as a Creole in Jane Eyre. It's a fucking great book.
| wide sargasso sea is excellent, i studied it last year & wrote about it, very sensuous
..i want to read it again now
as for my favourite classics..i don't really think i've read enough, but i'm trying to rectify that
james joyce - the portrait of the artist as a young man
sense and sensibility
franz kafka the trial |
09-11-2006, 02:09 PM
|  | died in a fire. | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by lmnop tell us how you like it. that book took my friend half a decade to finish. i think it's still in process, actually. | finished it, finally. didn't like it. |
09-11-2006, 02:44 PM
|  | Negative squire! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Southampton
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| | | The Hobbit
Alice in wonderland & through the looking glass
1984
The grapes of Wrath |
09-12-2006, 06:49 AM
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Originally Posted by CherryFairie I loved Gone With the Wind, but I've yet to talk to anyone who actually loved it. | i loved it though i prefer the film i'm in love with vivean leigh | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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