Have you read a classic recently?

robind13 · Post by **robind13** » 10 Dec 2014, 08:42

unfortunatley no

but if A Christmas Carol counts, I'll be reading that soon

lorenicole · Post by **lorenicole** » 10 Dec 2014, 11:52

Sadly I haven't read a classic for almost three years and it was the book Emma by Jane Austen for a History class in college...

zoedecicco · Post by **zoedecicco** » 10 Dec 2014, 12:13

Yes, the Scarlet Letter. Being British, we aren't taught this at school. I really loved it.

KristineNicole · Post by **KristineNicole** » 22 Dec 2014, 07:48

Yes. 'As You Like It' by Shakespeare.

Lady_Phantom · Post by **Lady_Phantom** » 22 Dec 2014, 15:06

I am currently reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin, and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. One those are finished I plan to read A tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Happily Candied · Post by **Happily Candied** » 22 Dec 2014, 16:08

I think Little Women, Little Men and Jo's Boys were the last classics I read. After I finish my Harry Potter marathon, I plan to continue with a few of Louisa's other works in Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury.

AngelBellaDonna · Post by **AngelBellaDonna** » 22 Dec 2014, 22:40

I read the bell jar just a couple months ago

huber24 · Post by **huber24** » 22 Dec 2014, 22:51

I try to read classics quite often. The last classic I finished was "Persuasion" by Jane Austen.

I'm currently reading "Walden" by Thoreau right now.

RussetDivinity · Post by **RussetDivinity** » 22 Dec 2014, 23:06

I recently read nine of Shakespeare's plays: Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Othello, Richard II, Henry IV Part One, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and Richard III. Granted, they were all for a class and I'd read/watched a few of them before, but I still think it counts.

3chicnP · Post by **3chicnP** » 23 Dec 2014, 14:45

I've tried reading A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens SO MANY TIMES. I just can't get into it. I mostly read YA Fiction. I'm trying to read more classics but I can't adapt to them. I'm not comfortable reading them. Are there any really great classics that I should read? I've tried reading Edgar Allan Poe but that didn't match either. Is it normal for me to not enjoy classics even though I'm a reader?

Himmelslicht · Post by **Himmelslicht** » 23 Dec 2014, 16:23

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Persuasion by Jane Austen
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott. Fitzgerald
The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Rings 1-3 by Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell

These are all the classics I read this year.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » 23 Dec 2014, 16:35

Brilliant list^, Iris

Himmelslicht · Post by **Himmelslicht** » 23 Dec 2014, 16:43

ryanj1 wrote:Brilliant list^, Iris

Woohoo, thanks!
And I want to read a ton more next year.
That's why I simply can't read most YA books or self-published books. Classics improved my standards a great deal! They made me very picky and demanding!

(thanks for remembering my name, I blushed!)

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » 23 Dec 2014, 21:14

Himmelslicht wrote:
ryanj1 wrote:Brilliant list^, Iris
Woohoo, thanks!
And I want to read a ton more next year.
That's why I simply can't read most YA books or self-published books. Classics improved my standards a great deal! They made me very picky and demanding!

(thanks for remembering my name, I blushed!)

Like I said, it's a nice name

Yep ... classics do that. Once you read them you just can't go back. Well worth it, though