Members groutt Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 I heard someone use the phrase "like reading Proust at a tractor pull". And that got me thinking... I've never read any Proust... or Shakespeare... or a lotta that standard stuff. So what "standards" that everyone's read, have you never read?
Members i_wanna_les_paul Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 I'd rather discuss a tractor pull
Members pickinatit Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 Moby Dick - Herman Mellville (if you can get past the "stuffy" language style it's a great story)Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson Not exactly classics in the same class with Proust and Dickens et al, but must reading for any avid reader: "Gone With The Wind" - Margaret Mitchell"Peyton Place" - Grace Metallious"Winds of War" - Herman Wouk"War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk (sequel to Winds of war; best WWII epics you'll ever read.
Members T. Alan Smith Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 I'm 37 and finally decided to start catching up on the classics. I read 1994 and Animal Farm earlier this summer.
Members takeout Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 I'm 37 and finally decided to start catching up on the classics. I read 1994 and Animal Farm earlier this summer.???
Members collinwho Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 I've never read any Proust, but I did read quite a bit of Shakespeare. Other than that, I have read: 1984 & Animal FarmFahrenheit 451Brave New WorldLes MiserablesLord of the FliesBeowulf Canterbury Tales (what's left of them)Catcher in the Ryea crapload of Mark Twainand a whole bunch of other stuff in AP English when I was in HS. One I would recommend against reading is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Maybe it was just me, but it was pretty much the most boring book I've ever read.
Members BEAD Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 "Classics" I've read (and remember off the top of my head): Crime and PunishmentThe Brothers KaramazovWar and PeaceDead Souls Leaves of GrassThe Great GatsbyMoby DickEast Of EdenNaked LunchOn The RoadThe Caine Mutiny1984Animal FarmPlayer PianoSlaughterhouse 5The StrangerPost OfficeTropic of CapricornThe Old Man and the SeaPrinciples of Mathematics - (Russell)RepublicLord of the FliesCatcher in the RyeOf Mice and MenWhite FangHuck FinnCatch 22A people's history of the united states - zinn
Members ivanthetrble Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 What? No love for Beowolf?
Members BEAD Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 What? No love for Beowolf? collinwho read it for me.
Members collinwho Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 What? No love for Beowolf? Prepare for me to impart some knowledge on Grendel and Grendel's Mother. . . on second thought, I know a lot of you (like myself) are at work right now and it would be best if you stayed awake, so I will refrain.
Members Hotblack Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 Scarlett Letter - HawthorneExecutioner's Song - MailerGrapes of Wrath - SteinbeckRabbit Run - UpdikeCatch 22 - HellerTo Kill A Mockingbird - LeeIn Cold Blood - CapoteNausea - SartreNo Exit - SartreWalden - ThoreauNative Son - WrightPeople's History of the U.S.- Zinn
Members Rippin' Robin Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 I've just started in Brideshead Revisited by Waugh, and I still need to make a start in Ulysses by Joyce. To compensate for this, I have read every novel Thomas Hardy has ever written at least twice, including his biographies by Gittings and Millgate.
Members bholder Posted August 15, 2007 Members Posted August 15, 2007 I've just started in Brideshead Revisited by Waugh, and I still need to make a start in Ulysses by Joyce. To compensate for this, I have read every novel Thomas Hardy has ever written at least twice, including his biographies by Gittings and Millgate. Is that the same Thomas Hardy that made the really really fine ale? I believe it is. Dayum.
Members Jugghaid Posted August 16, 2007 Members Posted August 16, 2007 Nah. Grapes of Wrath holds that Title. I would reccommend however, The Great Gatsby, the Old Man and the Sea and Alas Babylon. All Classics, all great books. Three of my favorites. There are a ton of others though.
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