Anonymous
Post 06/02/2025 21:29     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Never read Gatsby. Doubt I missed much. So many other books and so little time.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2025 17:34     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2025 17:26     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
In Search of Lost Time.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2025 08:39     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Gatsby is the one I somehow was never assigned in school and have always been a little curious.

Moby Dick was forgettable. I remember the first sentence.

Faulkner was the worst. Didn't finish either of his books that I was assigned.

Hemingway I read on my own. Old Man and the Sea I liked, The Sun Always Rises I had to force myself to finish.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2025 08:32     Subject: Re:Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Emma
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2025 00:42     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
I never finished Dante’s Inferno. Lit major here and they sometimes (all the time) assigned too much reading to one night. I even took one lit class twice to fit in more reading.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2025 00:23     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Anonymous wrote:Moby Dick. Somehow I’ve avoided it, but I keep thinking I should read it.


I finally read it during a summer where I traveled for work in a foreign country and was very off the grid.

Good experience when you can fully focus on it. I reread a couple chapters just to ponder the writing in depth.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2025 00:21     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Anonymous wrote:Middlemarch


I read it so you didn't have to. Not to my taste.

I have not yet read War and Peace, although I have studied Russian language.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2025 00:14     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Anonymous wrote:Moby Dick. Somehow I’ve avoided it, but I keep thinking I should read it.


I have started this book three times, including for two different classes, but I just could not get into it!!
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2025 23:15     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Middlemarch
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2025 22:30     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Anna Karenina
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2025 21:43     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Moby Dick. Somehow I’ve avoided it, but I keep thinking I should read it.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2025 21:33     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
The last chapter of Ulysses 🤦🏽‍♀️
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2025 21:30     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Hemingway
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2025 21:24     Subject: Lit majors and lit scholars, what's a classic "canon" work that you've never read?
Literature buffs, lit majors and lit scholars, what great authors and canon texts have you not (yet) read?