Ah, that is a truly tough novel. I just started it a month ago, intending on marathoning my way through in a few weeks, but work and Hugo's darn writing style got in the way. I am only a small way into the recounting of the Battle of Waterloo, at the moment.I consider it my life goal to finish reading Les Misérables before I'm 30. XD I'm about 1/5 of the way there! It's an excellent story, and a fascinating read so far.
ich1990 (post: 1402379) wrote:Ah, that is a truly tough novel. I just started it a month ago, intending on marathoning my way through in a few weeks, but work and Hugo's darn writing style got in the way. I am only a small way into the recounting of the Battle of Waterloo, at the moment.
LadyRushia wrote:I want to read The Grapes of Wrath
ich wrote:Milton's Paradise Lost is an easy pick.
I know, right? I especially liked the part when the ravening horde of demons look at each and ask themselves why they are fighting with swords and arrows when they could just take a few minutes and invent something better. So, they build cannons.Nate (post: 1402554) wrote:I love Paradise Lost because when you get right down to it, it's nothing more than Bible fanfiction that somehow got accepted as canon by the church.
While Twain (along with Ambrose Bierce) can always be counted on to provide a solid definition, if you look at the third post, you can see the thread maker gave us the following guidelines:I'd like to contribute more but I'm still not sure how we're defining "classics." Unless it's Mark Twain's definition, "something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
ich1990 wrote:I know, right? I especially liked the part when the ravening horde of demons look at each and ask themselves why they are fighting with swords and arrows when they could just take a few minutes and invent something better. So, they build cannons.
1) High literature that is generally accepted as such, like Austen, Tolstoy, or Dickens. So, popular works that are generally considered classics. I imagine that any of the Penguin Classics or Harvard Classics would fall under this category.
2) Has been accepted as a classic for generations. This is a little vague, so I interpreted it as meaning it has been around for more than a hundred years.
3) Will be accepted as a classic for generations to come. I always find it taxing to employ my time traveling skills, so I just ignored this clause.
Nate (post: 1402570) wrote:Anything by John Steinbeck is out by that definition, though.
Atria35 (post: 1402409) wrote:Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
ShiroiHikari (post: 1402624) wrote:I like the story of Pride and Prejudice, but I don't like the book. If that makes sense.
Atria35 (post: 1402409) wrote:The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne- simple and to the point once you get past the intro. A beautiful love story, with it thwarted, for the most part (what makes it so tragic! ) And with so much on whether she should have been faithful, whether it was fair for her husband to have been declared dead, how right it was for her and the pastor/preacher to be in love....
PatrickEklektos wrote: I love the Russian authors Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
PatrickEklektos wrote: And you can't forget the Arthurian Romances!
PatrickEklektos (post: 1402857) wrote:Kaori, have you read "The Celestial Railroad"? If you have read "Agustin's Confessions" (brilliant work btw and a personal favorite), then you have probably read Pilgrims Progress! After reading PP, then you must read The Celestial Railroad! It is so perfect and, ironically, pictures and portrays the modern church perfectly!
Hey, am I the only one here who writes notes and observations in the margins of my books... especially in Classics?
ShiroiHikari (post: 1403086) wrote:I do however make bookmarks out of toilet paper.
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