I'm going back to read the classics I missed

[Anonymous]

Just want to say this is very inspiring to me! I did read and love Jane eyre, catcher in the rye, great gatsby... My memory is failing me. But SO MANY I've never read. I think I will make a list from here and put it on my wall

[Anonymous]

My fave classics are Wuthering Heights and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Also loved Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre.

[Anonymous]

The Good Earth. I could read it 100 times and never get bored.

[Anonymous]

The jungle by upton Sinclair is my fav.

[Anonymous]

Look at the reading lists for St. John's College. Their curriculum is all classics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at the reading lists for St. John's College. Their curriculum is all classics.

Are you a Johnnie too?

[Anonymous]

No just a wanna be!

[Anonymous]

lady chatterley's lover - I remember seeing the trailers for the movie on Cinimax when I was growing up and it looked pretty interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A few more

Ones I've read:

Eugene Onegin
Dead Souls
No Exit (love me some Sartre)
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
My Antonia


Ones I need to read:

Oliver Twist
The House of Mirth
Ulysses (though part if me wonders if this is only to be all like, "I read Ulysses")
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Sister Carrie

House of Mirth is fantastic!
Sister Carrie was good, but not one of my favorites.
Ulysses - a long, not rewarding slog through most of the book, punctuated by some incredible parts that have stayed with me for two decades. Overall, worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't finish Little Women or Anne Frank.

I know that for Little Women it is that I don't like that Jo turns down Laurie. I thought maybe that when I grew up a bit and reread it as an adult I might see things differently but no...the book falls apart for me then.

I'd like to read more Hemingway. I read the Old Man and the Sea and that was it.

I went to a small college prep high school and we were assigned authors but not titles usually. Of course we went and found the shortest "classic" by each author. So I've read Tale of Two Cities but nothing else by Dickens. Typee but not Moby Dick. Of Mice and Men but not Grapes of Wrath. Etc...

Never mind that for "light" reading, I plowed through all of Herman Wouk's books, Gone with The Wind, and countless other massive tomes.

You must make yourself finish it.

You will be very happy with what happens for both Laurie and Jo.

[Anonymous]

Gave up trying to read Ulyssees a few weeks ago. May be I should try again...

[Anonymous]

Are Thomas Mann's books considered classics? I loved them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gave up trying to read Ulyssees a few weeks ago. May be I should try again...

If you decide to try again, give yourself permission to skip over some of the really bizarre parts (like the chapter that is all about the names of trees).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Master and Magarita - it is my favorite Russian novel.

Yes! Happy to see this mentioned twice here.

[Anonymous]

Love Steinbeck - Read The Pearl and Grapes of Wrath in high school but my favorite is East of Eden.

Love A Tree Grows in Brooklyn...one of my all time faves.

Garcia Marquez is tough but try Love in the Time of Cholera. I found it more digestible than some of the others.