The classics

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chimpchan said:
19th Century: Jane Eyre, In Search Of Lost Time, Persuasion, Count of Monte Cristo, Bleak House
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I really love Bleak House, but it's not easy to recommend. You know, here's a 1,000+ page novel mostly about a lawsuit where nobody even wins. The detective thread with Inspector Bucket is awesome, though, and rarely given credit as one of the first works of detective fiction.
 
I've read Jane Eyre.

I think we read something by Charles Dickins in school but I can't remember, too old now.
 
Some of my favorite "classics" are Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Bible (I haven't read much, but it's pretty sick), The Catcher in the Rye, the works of HP Lovecraft, Poe and Tolkien (Don't know if they'd count), Macbeth and Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, Doctor Faustus by Marlowe and 1984.
I need to read the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost though.
 
My favorites have to be Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victer Hugo, and Othello by Shakespeare in recent memory. There's a bit of books from high school I need to read to have a different opinion like To Kill a Mockingbird. Looking at this also reminds me that I'm behind on reading Les Miserables.
 
I read Call of The Wild along with Whitefang. Kind of when I was going through a Wolfaboo stage.

Moby Dick was read withmy class because I used to live in a town that had a festival for whales. 10 000 Leagues was also read. I prefered 10000 as it seemed more adventurous.
War of the Worlds I listened to the original radio broadcast. Animal Farm I read by myself when I found that my grandfather had a diplipated 60s versions with his notes (he was a conspiracy guy who thought that a lot of the animald were symbolic to Freemasonry)

I have a copy of Picture of Dorian Grey sitting on my coffee table and I flip through it slowly.

1984 I read in class. I got pretty bored with it IMHO. I discussed before in the unpopular opinion thread that it seems diluted.

Shakespeare works I read were Richard III and Taming of The Shrew.

All and all I'm just bragging. The best series I've ever read was the Alien Omnibus and Guardians of GaHoole, which I dont think either series would be considered groundbreaking instant classics.
 
When I was a wee babü, I would only go to sleep after being read a story, and my father's way of killing two birds with one stone was to read me Moby-Dick. It put me to sleep almost instantly because it was so fucking boring, but now that I am grown and have a hair or two on my chin, I have actually read Moby-Dick and found that it wasn't as boring as it was when I was a child.

My favourite classic novel is Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. I've always been attracted to typical neckbeardy things like tales of chivalry and the inescapable "girl in the tower" stories simply because I'm interested in the time period rather than the actual neckbeardy things. Other favourites of mine are Bram Stoker's Dracula, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera, and strangely Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

In terms of poetry, my absolute favourites are The Divine Comedy and Beowulf. I'm not so much into poetry, mostly because after having been forced to read and also analyse a shit-ton of poems in high school I'm pretty much burnt out.

Plays: Macbeth, Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost, and Goethe's Faust. I have considered reading Marlowe's Dr. Faustus but for the most part I am uninterested; don't really know why. I don't like much in the way of Greek plays, but Medea and Oedipus Rex are the two I actually enjoyed when I was required to watch/read them in high school English/theatre arts.
 
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