Have you read a classic recently?

kimingram8 · Post by **kimingram8** » 15 Sep 2014, 09:50

The Great Gatsby - July 2014

stoppoppingtheP · Post by **stoppoppingtheP** » 15 Sep 2014, 14:07

I started reading Animal Farm, I read a few chapters, and now its laying by my bedside accumulating dust. I should pick it up again sometime.

LarryWilto · Post by **LarryWilto** » 16 Sep 2014, 07:43

Faulkner. As I Lay Dying.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » 16 Sep 2014, 12:08

I'm almost finished An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke. Not really a literary classic, but a philosophical one. Very interesting ideas, although many of them to us would be considered common sense. It's interesting to see the evolution of ideas, however.

Aithne · Post by **Aithne** » 16 Sep 2014, 15:09

No and I'm so glad I haven't. Now university is over I can read what I want and only read the classics if I have a hankering after a particular one.

kichfree · Post by **kichfree** » 16 Sep 2014, 19:16

I started Jude the Obscure a couple days ago and I read the Communist Manifesto last year, just out of curiosity. Does that count? I read the Secret Garden and Journey to the Center of the Earth to my daughter.

michystar12 · Post by **michystar12** » 16 Sep 2014, 22:43

Sry but no

Snow-White-Queen · Post by **Snow-White-Queen** » 17 Sep 2014, 09:47

I just went out recently and bought the entire Edgar Allen Poe collection, and have read it about 3 times since I've had it.

The last classic before that was either Animal Farm or To Kill a Mockingbird. Great stuff.

Post by **nannyluvscmu** » 17 Sep 2014, 21:45

I'm currently reading Dante's INFERNO and Shakespeare's ROMEO & JULIET.

Charlotte Reese · Post by **Charlotte Reese** » 17 Sep 2014, 23:26

Jae101 wrote:Currently I am re-reading Jane Austen's Northanger Abby. I keep forgetting how easy her work is to read, and then I fall in love with it, and her writing, all over again. I'm a romantic at heart!

I'm re-reading it now. I find Northanger Abbey as the most entertaining Jane Austen novel. My favorite is Persuasion, though.

tlrossin01 · Post by **tlrossin01** » 18 Sep 2014, 16:39

I have read Pride and Prejudice, Emma, The Scarlet Letter, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, as well as a few of Shakespeare's plays and I am currently reading the complete Sherlock Holmes collection. I love them all! I would love suggestions for what I should read afterwords.

trephany129 · Post by **trephany129** » 19 Sep 2014, 12:41

Charlotte Reese wrote:
Jae101 wrote:Currently I am re-reading Jane Austen's Northanger Abby. I keep forgetting how easy her work is to read, and then I fall in love with it, and her writing, all over again. I'm a romantic at heart!
I'm re-reading it now. I find Northanger Abbey as the most entertaining Jane Austen novel. My favorite is Persuasion, though.

This is what I've been planning to read next! I think I'll enjoy it. As I understand, it is somewhat gothic. I enjoy Jane Austen but her writing is often more lighthearted in tone than I normally tend to read.

mandap24 · Post by **mandap24** » 19 Sep 2014, 13:29

I recently read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. It was interesting and I'm glad I read it. But when I tried to watch the movie I couldn't actually sit down and watch it.

BookWorm07 · Post by **BookWorm07** » 19 Sep 2014, 13:47

I read 'The Three Musketeers' by Alexandre Dumas and 'Much ado about nothing' by Shakespeare. They turned out to be easier and far more interesting than I than I thought they would be. Planning on getting some more classics now.