Anonymous
08/31/2014 21:49
Subject: I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
I don't like a lot of the classics I was required to read but I did love To Kill a Mockingbird and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Anonymous
08/31/2014 21:26
Subject: Re:I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
Can't believe I haven't seen Wuthering Heights on this list. I was an English lit major and this was my favorite.
Anonymous
08/31/2014 20:53
Subject: I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (anything by Steinbeck, really.)
Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you like biographies, those books are good and they provide strong character development similar to a biography.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (anything by Steinbeck, really.)
Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you like biographies, those books are good and they provide strong character development similar to a biography.
Anonymous
08/31/2014 20:47
Subject: I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
The count of monte cristo. Loved!
Anonymous
08/31/2014 20:43
Subject: I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
Tale of Two Cities
Anonymous
08/31/2014 20:34
Subject: I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
Anything by Nicholson Baker.
Anonymous
08/31/2014 20:26
Subject: I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
Anonymous wrote:You know, I'm a literature nerd, a former English Lit major, and I never read much Joyce. Just didn't like it, didn't like the utter opaqueness of everything. So I didn't read him. But I love good story telling, so I read things with good plots. How about George Elliot? Middlemarch is one of my favorites. Or Virginia Woolf - Orlando is a kind of trashy romp, but something like To The Lighthouse is literary but lovely to read. Would echo To Kill a Monkingbird. Some scary weird wonderful stuff would be Clockwork Orange, Nineteen Eighty Four, or Farenheight 451. Another favorite is Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Nele Hurston.
Really, if you try it and hate it, move on. There are wonderful classics out there that you'll love.
Not OP, but relieved to hear this. I consider myself well read but never could get into Joyce for the opaqueness. Thanks for confirming it's not just my lack of intellect.
Anonymous
08/31/2014 19:41
Subject: I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
Crime and Punishment, Brave New World, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1984, The Color Purple, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, To Kill a Mockingbird
Anonymous
08/31/2014 18:36
Subject: Re:I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
Brave New World, Anne of Green Gables, Lord of the Flies, The Time Machine, any collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury, Jane Eyre. Since you like biographies, a good autobiography is "Twelve Years a Slave".
Anonymous
08/31/2014 18:12
Subject: Re:I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Anna Karenina
Don Quixote
Crime and Punishment
Any Shakespeare plays - esp. Hamlet and Macbeth
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Anna Karenina
Don Quixote
Crime and Punishment
Any Shakespeare plays - esp. Hamlet and Macbeth
Anonymous
08/31/2014 17:15
Subject: I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
Take the time to actual read A Christmas Carol, no matter how many times you have seen stage/screen adaptations.
Anonymous
08/31/2014 16:49
Subject: Re:I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
Anonymous wrote:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. DuBois
Civil Disobedience, by H.D. Thoreau
I love your list!
Anonymous
08/31/2014 16:43
Subject: I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
I like Trollope, Dickens, Wharton, Gaskell, pretty much listened to all audiobooks they have on audible from these authors bc I have a long commute.
I like to see the world as they saw it then; even if the plot might not interest you, the different worldview is fascinating.
I like to see the world as they saw it then; even if the plot might not interest you, the different worldview is fascinating.
Anonymous
08/31/2014 16:39
Subject: I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
Anonymous wrote:OP once more. Take James Joyce. I look at Ulysses, and think What the hell? But, I should read it, right?
No!!!!
I am very well read and haven't. I just not into the modern and post-modern crap.
Anonymous
08/31/2014 16:22
Subject: Re:I'm not well read. Which classics I should read?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. DuBois
Civil Disobedience, by H.D. Thoreau
Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. DuBois
Civil Disobedience, by H.D. Thoreau