Classics are books that everyone wants to have read but no one ever does, or so claims Mark Twain. Many people don't bother because yes, some classics are pretty tough. What about you? What classics have you swallowed? This Topic is to share trials and triumphs of 'those kinds of books'; to expend joy over FINALLY finishing those hundreds of pages, and to offer encouragement to those who feel that "Call me Ishmael" is about all they want to hear abut Moby.
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Classics :)
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LoL, let me see...
I read Moby Dick for school, unabridged, and I absolutely was bored to death.
But The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is wonderful!
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I read Lord of the Rings. Which I really liked and I am in the middle of Ivanhoe. The reading is a different style but you kinda get used to it.
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I enjoyed The Hobbit.
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I read a lot of classics, don't know why, I think the influence of Narniaweb might have something to do with it.
Favourites--
Les Miserables
LOTR and CoN
Alice in Wonderland (or are children's classics cheating? ;))
Anything E. Nesbit
The Man Who Was Thursday
Sherlock Holmes
Northanger Abbey
Quo Vadis
The Emily books and The Story Girl and its sequel, by L.M. Montgomery (never liked the Anne books for some reason)But most of those aren't the big, thick, complicated, intelligent-sounding books that come to mind when one says "classics."
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The Hound of the Baskervilles was actually very good, but NEVER watch the movie! I couldn't sleep for several nights...
Ivanhoe, huh? I'm eyeing that one warily, watching the dust collect. Silas Marner is a good book...if you wish to fall asleep very quickly. Listen to the Focus on the Family dramatization instead! Much better.
Yup, 'children's' classics count. Winnie the Pooh is so cute! It gets funnier as you get older.Posted 3 years ago # -
Let's see. I've read:
Sherlock Holmes (all of them, I think)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Scarlet Pimpernel
A Tale of Two Cities
Ivanhoe
LotR
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Black Beauty
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Jungle
The Red Badge of Courage
Up From SlaveryI enjoy almost everything I read, so I liked most of these pretty well.
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Ooh, I LOVED Around the World in Eighty Days! Our mom read it aloud and did all the accents. The Scarlet Pimpernel was disgruntling for the first seven chapters or so. I have a friend who gave up on the Red badge of Courage...Rifles for Watie rocked! By the way, what does LoL stand for?
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It stands for laugh out loud.
Hey, are the Narnia books considered classics?
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Yes, the Narnia series is considered a classic.
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Okay. Thanks.
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Oh, I forgot about To Kill a Mockingbird. That one is good. Of course.
I'm being subjected to Of Mice and Men, Death of a Salesman, and Hamlet for English this term...I bemoan all but Hamlet. The others look depressing and profanity-laced. Sigh.
What do you think makes a book a classic? Being famous after the author is dead?
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From Oxford: Judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.
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Books that are God-honoring and stand true in the face of a world full of lies, and being widely known, read and loved helps, too.
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