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06-06-2006, 06:07 AM
|  | crown and anchor me | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at army
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| | | Favourite Classics?
I'm currently reading Jane Eyre and I loooove it so far.
Since this is one of the very first "classic" novels I have ever read, I'm just wondering what everyone here loves, hates, or would recommend? 
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06-06-2006, 09:36 AM
|  | Lets stay up | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
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| | | I finished "Great Expectations" By Charles Dickens the other week. If I had of just read it all in 2 weeks I would have dug it more. But I spaced it out over 2 months! Ahh. I liked it. Read "Valley Of The Dolls" its a cheap trashy classic. Oscar Wilde is also a genious. |
06-06-2006, 02:45 PM
|  | ***WWW.VIPERROOM.ORG*** | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: in my house.
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| | | Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorrian Gray. |
06-06-2006, 04:59 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Land of Oz
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| | | The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
1984 by George Orwell
My top picks. |
06-06-2006, 06:47 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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| | | Jane Eyre is rubbish compared to Wuthering Heights
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Picture of Dorian Gray
crime and punishment |
06-06-2006, 06:52 PM
|  | A GODDAMN SHAME | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: HEAD FUCK, ILLINOIS
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| | | Tess of the D'urbivilles (i know, spelling eek.) |
06-06-2006, 06:53 PM
|  | salty milk and coins | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: fayetteville, ga
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| | | Crime and Punishment, All Quiet on the Western Front, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, and I didn't really like "The Picture of Dorian Gray" very much FYI |
06-06-2006, 06:57 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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| | | tonight i think i'm going to start Vanity Fair By William Makepeace Thackeray
anyone read it? |
06-06-2006, 07:13 PM
|  | some kind of wonderful | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: life in the fast lane
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Originally Posted by sugarscar Tess of the D'urbivilles (i know, spelling eek.) | love love love love this book. |
06-07-2006, 01:37 AM
|  | a.k.a Madge Spammer | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Panama
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| | | 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. |
06-07-2006, 05:49 AM
|  | ThankYouSirDavid! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: C'Era Una Volta Il West
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| | the great gatsby is my favorite book ever
and i also love ethan frome - edith wharton. |
06-09-2006, 04:39 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Land of Oz
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| | | I loved Gone With the Wind, but I've yet to talk to anyone who actually loved it. |
06-09-2006, 04:41 PM
|  | batwife | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: trapped in cabinets
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Originally Posted by alien she Wuthering Heights | i own this but havent read it yet |
06-15-2006, 11:48 PM
|  | hi ho cherrio | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chicago & Boston
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| | | Catcher in the Rye
Of Human Bondage
The Great Gatsby |
06-16-2006, 02:01 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | Jane Eyre is completely, utterly, insane, but I love it. I'd take it over Wuthering Heights (book not song, which is a personal fave) any day. Not to mention The Tenant of Wildfell Hall... |
06-16-2006, 06:03 AM
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Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a mockingbird
The Bell jar
Those are my three favourite classics and three of my favourite books ever. |
06-16-2006, 06:15 AM
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Originally Posted by bort Jane Eyre is completely, utterly, insane, but I love it. I'd take it over Wuthering Heights (book not song, which is a personal fave) any day. Not to mention The Tenant of Wildfell Hall... | 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.
My favourite classics:
Black Beauty
Jane Eyre
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
06-16-2006, 09:22 AM
|  | books written for girls | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | i definately liked the Bell Jar
The Great Gatsby was a good book because the characters were such twats. If they were alive today, I'd expect them to be sporting Doir bags and Gucci sunglasses. The reason i liked the Great Gatsby because it was like starring at road kill. The life style that they lead isn't fascinating but repulsive. However, you don't want to look away.
I liked the idea of the picture of dorian gray but hated the entire book up till the very end. it dragged. |
06-16-2006, 09:31 AM
|  | girl who bought the world | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: singapore
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| | | the prophet - khalil gibran. does that count? |
06-16-2006, 09:53 AM
|  | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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| | | jane eyre is absolutely one of my favourite books ever. i somehow managed to end up studying it for a different module at every year of english lit i did at uni. which was excellent, so i knw this book INSIDEOUT. it's great
catcher in the rye - basically my favourite book ever
othello - my favourite shakespeare. i once wrote an essay on it calling shakespeare a racist and a misogynist. my tutor called me 'controversial' and 'polemic' but i got 80 so WOOO.
sons and lovers, lady chatterley's lover. i love DH Lawrence
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