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what are your favorite classics?

[rubbertea]

fandom as a whole doesn't seem to be very fond of classics, which is a shame, because that's all i read (that, and hard sci-fi, which somehow has a bigger fanbase). one could argue that the ever popular sherlock holmes series could be considered a classic, but i don't agree.

anyway, my personal favorites are of mice and men, all the king's men, 1984, manhattan transfer and the stranger.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[tabaqui]

Captains Courageous, Little Women, Kipling's Jungle Books, Brideshead Revisited, Watership Down, and Romeo and Juliet. Yes, i re-read that, mostly for Mercutio. :)

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[rubbertea]

oh, watership down! i've been meaning to read it for a while (ok, mostly because it was featured on lost, but hey, any reason's a good reason). it's about bunnies, correct?

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[(Anonymous)]

Mercutio is the best character.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[(Anonymous)]

I always loved Shakespeare's comedies.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I always feel really pretentious saying it but yeah, I really really love Shakespeare's comedies. Especially A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[(Anonymous)]

1984 for sure, also Fahrenheit 451 and Lord of the Flies. Do children's classics count too? Because I can always go back to A Little Princess or basically any of Roald Dahl's books.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[rubbertea]

i personally put children's classics in their own category in my mind, but they're definitely considered classics. and roald dahl is awesome. what's your favorite book of his? mine is the witches.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[philstar22]

A Little Princess was one of my favorite books as a kid. I still love it (and hate both the main movie versions, though a third one exists that is actually close to the book and so much better).

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[sarillia]

I assume you mean books. I love Jane Austen, especially Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey; Anne Bronte is my favorite Bronte sister; I like Dostoyevsky, especially Crime and Punishment; Tender Is the Night; Frankenstein; and I don't know if this counts but 101 Dalmatians.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[philstar22]

Little Women, War and Peace, Macbeth and Hamlet and Julius Caesar, Count of Monte Cristo, Three Musketeers, A Tale of Two Cities, Iliad/Odyssey, and The Time Machine.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[neonlovechicken]

I have so many of those, I grew up reading classics. :D Russian literature is my big love, followed by Italian (because I'm, well, Italian). Some works that come to mind that really shaped my imagination when I was a kid:
- The Red and the Black
- The Stranger
- anything Poe has written
- anything Dino Buzzati has written (I strongly recommend his creepy short stories and novels, along with, of course, The Tartar Steppe)
- crime and punishment
- anything written by Pirandello and Italo Calvino
- Italo Svevo's Zeno's Coscience
- Mario Puzo's Godfather
- Anna Karenina (one of my abs fave books)
- The Karamazov's brothers (ok, this I read a lot later, I was 18... couldn't have made it before that I think)
- Lord of the Rings (of course, one of the first books I read, made me start loving books)
- Madame Bovary

I'm clearly forgetting a lot now, but these are surely in my EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ list.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[queerwolf]

I had a much larger collection before I moved. I only have Frankenstein (my favorite book of all time) and Call of the Wild now. I also like The Count of Monte Cristo, Treasure Island, Once and Future King and a few others.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[tabaqui]

Oh, man, people are mentioning so many awesome books in this thread. I'm happy to say i've read a lot of them!
*makes notes on the rest*

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[badass_tiger]

I love classics too! A few years ago those were the only books I'd read. I reasoned that if they stuck around that long, they had to have something good about them. My ultimate favourite is Pride and Prejudice (I'm a romantic, screw me, I don't care), but I love pretty much anything with girls being girls as the main character like Anne of Green Gables an Little Women. I was really impressed by Dracula, I liked it better than I thought I would. The Picture of Dorian Grey is mad up my alley although I don't generally like Oscar Wilde otherwise. Oooh and Wuthering Heights is another favourite! So good, but I've yet to touch anyone who says they like it, it's too often misinterpreted.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[inkdust]

I have a to-read list for classics a mile long but my favorites I've read are The Secret Garden, Pride and Prejudice, and anything I've read by Dickens. Recently that was A Tale of Two Cities, I was majorly impressed. But I think Zola wins out, though I read slower in French and don't tend to casually pick up and reread the way I do with the others.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[loracarol]

-Treasure Island
- Count of Monte Cristo
- Fahrenheit 451
- Midsummer's Night Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, and The Tempest
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Anne of Green Gables & The Blue Castle
- The Blue Fairy Book (does that count?)
- Edward Eager's books (do those count, or are they too "young"?)
- E. Nesbit's The Dragon Book

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[andthehandmaiden]

- Most of Jane Austen novels, especially P&P
- Agatha Christie (does she count as a classic?)
- P.G. Wodehouse

There are so many classics I have yet to read. *shame face*

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[(Anonymous)]

Pride & Prejudice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Les Misérables, Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Might be more that I can't recall.

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[straightforwardly]

Everything Jane Austen, but especially Northanger Abbey and Wuthering Heights immediately spring to mind. Oh, and The Little Prince too, if that counts-- those three are definitely some of my all-time favorite books. Others I love include The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Anna Karenina, The Three Musketeers...

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[diet_poison]

A Tale of Two Cities! :)

ETA: Forgot Pride and Prejudice. Oops!

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[brooms]

onegin

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[cakemage]

Black Beauty (surprise, surprise), Misty of Chincoteague, Twelfth Night, Watership Down, The Time Machine and The White Seal. I'm also a sucker for pulp-era sci-fi. The more ridiculous, the better!

Re: what are your favorite classics?

[(Anonymous)]

Love 1984.

I'm not sure if all of these are considered classics, so bear with me...

Pride & Prejudice, Wuthering Heights (yes I know), The Secret Garden, the Alice in Wonderland books, Don Quixote, Oliver Twist, The Call Of The Wild (which I may be confusing with White Fang), Hamlet, and The Picture of Dorian Gray are all on my list. Some I don't love as much as others, but I like them all. I tend to read classics when I want to read a book I know will be well-written. Whether I will actually like it or not is a different story (I don't like Emma, Anna Karenina, etc.) but at least I know it won't be badly written.