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Old 06-06-2006, 06:07 AM
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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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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.
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Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorrian Gray.
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The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
1984 by George Orwell

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Jane Eyre is rubbish compared to Wuthering Heights
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Picture of Dorian Gray
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Tess of the D'urbivilles (i know, spelling eek.)
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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
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tonight i think i'm going to start Vanity Fair By William Makepeace Thackeray

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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.
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the great gatsby is my favorite book ever

and i also love ethan frome - edith wharton.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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
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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.
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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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