Favorite 'Classic' Novel?

[TripleB]

IYO what is the best 'classic' book you have read?

I wasn't much of a reader growing up...6th grade reading teacher made us read a book and write a book report each week...didn't have any love for reading in school after that.

Anyway, now that I'm 41 I'm going back and reading some of the 'classics' I never read.

Currently reading 'Of Mice and Men' and am enjoying it...probably moreso since I'm not being forced to read it by some mean teacher (did I mention I'm a teacher)?

Just curious as to what your favorite 'classic' novels are.

TripleB

 

[leoman777]

i just read 'The Outsiders' in english i thought the book was pretty good and were going to watch the movie today....

 

[R.E.F]

I just read ¨The Outsiders¨ too, and i saw the movie also today LOL, FUnny....

But what a book, and film, it just a good book !

 

[BGalloway]

I loved, absolutely loved, Tess of d'Urbervilles, had to read it for a class but the professor made it interesting; the symbolism and imagery in that book is amazing. Count of Monte Cristo was good, I read it in high school just because I wanted to and loved it.

Not technically 'classics' but Watership Down and Plague Dogs were really good. They're by the same author, Richard Adams.

 

[Kristi23]

My all time favorite book is The Bell Jar.

Some other really good ones are Dracula, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and Wuthering Heights.

 

[Bellalee]

The Great Gatsby was one of my favorites.. hence my last horse's name was Gatsby.
To Kill a Mockingbird was awesome!
I love The Outsiders when I read it.
A Tale of Two Cities.
The Giver.
Where the red fern grows.

I liked a lot of wierd books.. oh well.

 

[LizMarie]

Outsiders and The Great Gatsby, were good.

Rachel how did you get through A Tale of Two Cities? I had to read it in my freshman year of high school and couldn't get passed the first page, lol. my goal is to someday read it but I dunno getting past that first page sure is hard, lol

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

The Grapes of Wrath.

 

[Kitsune]

I love The Great Gatsby as well~
In fact.. I have no idea where my copy got to.. I'll have to get another one. :x

 

[Khrysty]

IYO what is the best 'classic' book you have read?

I wasn't much of a reader growing up...6th grade reading teacher made us read a book and write a book report each week...didn't have any love for reading in school after that.

Anyway, now that I'm 41 I'm going back and reading some of the 'classics' I never read.

Currently reading 'Of Mice and Men' and am enjoying it...probably moreso since I'm not being forced to read it by some mean teacher (did I mention I'm a teacher)?

Just curious as to what your favorite 'classic' novels are.

TripleB

Of Mice and Men makes me so sad! I won't give away the ending, though, in case you don't know it..just prepare to have some tissues ready

 

[Alliemac]

Swiss Family Robinson is always good. So is Huckleberry Finn.

 

[M&I Gecko]

Bram Stoker's Dracula.

 

[Riyo]

1984, Brave New World, Dracula, Fahrenheit 451, 20000 Leagues under the Sea, Dante's Inferno ..

if you want something really classic try the Iliad and the Odyssey.

 

[LizMarie]

1984, Brave New World, Dracula, Fahrenheit 451, 20000 Leagues under the Sea, Dante's Inferno ..

if you want something really classic try the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Holy Moly I remember Fahrenheit 451! I loved that book is was kinda creepy though, lol.

I'm not sure if these are classics but I like them; The Catcher and the Rye, The Scarlett Letter, The Stranger, Frankenstein, Doctor Faustus (loved it)..

Besides that I like self help books, books in Oprah's Book Club and anything that V.C. Andrews wrote. .. I'm a Nerd I know..

 

[Kitsune]

Yes! I forgot all about Fahrenheit 451! I loved that book too~
And Of Mice and Men as well. :3

 

[T&KBrouse]

Dante's Inferno
Beloved
Cry, the Beloved Country
Moby Dick
Gone with the Wind
Lord of the Flies
To Kill a Mockingbird

Other than that, anything written by Maya Angelou.

 

[Kitsune]

! Lord of the Flies is another awesome one! :3
How did I forget these? lol.

 

[R.E.F]

Also, a danish book: Rejsen Gennem Natten (translated: The Travel Through The NIght) nr. 1 and nr 2
Dystopia
Anything writting by L.R Stine!

 

[VampyricAngelX]

I've read quite a few of the books mentioned above (Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc.) but never really enjoyed them much, since they were required readings for school. So the only "classic" novel I've read on my own was Dracula. Though I am a huge bookworm, I tend to read books that are a little more current.

 

[Alliemac]

Oh yeah! How could I forget Gone With the Wind???? I've read that dozens of times. I like rereading the old Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys too. Not really intellectual reading but I enjoy them at the beach or for light reading.