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Have to admit I'm not big on classics or even sure what counts as a classic half the time. But according to my bookshelf I like:

Narnia
Silver Stallion
Ben Hur
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Muddleheaded Wombat
cuddlepot and snugglepie
Peter Pan
The Call of the Wild
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Scott's Last Expedition
Storm Boy
We

I basically listed anything that did read as 'old' to me.

I do have Lord of the Rings and I did read it but not enjoyed it overly. It's kind of a leatherbound family heirloom.

I do want to read 1984 but I've yet to find it in a secondhand store

How old does something have to be a "classic"?

I'm mostly a genre reader, so anything that's proto-crime, proto-sci-fi or proto-fantasy has a decent chance with me. Specific classics ...

Well, Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Maurice Le Blanc (Arsene Lupin stories), Arthur Conan Doyle, Shakespeare (well, some of them), Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita). Dickens, not so much. Austen and the Brontes, I wasn't that fond of either, though I didn't mind Sense and Sensibility.

If we count poetry, I'll also throw in John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Also William Blake. Hmm. Early horror is a bit hit and miss, Frankenstein was fascinating but the story structure is *strange*, Dracula is good if you skip most of the middle section. Dorian Grey was creepy and fascinating, though.

I like a lot of the dystopias, but admittedly I prefer them on screen. Animal Farm, 1984. I tried A Clockwork Orange, but found the slang too dense to get through.

Many of the children's classics, so Treasure Island, Secret Garden, Black Beauty, Narnia, Alice in Wonderland. Peter Pan was a lot darker than I expected, though.

Stories from One Thousand and One Nights, Grimm's Fairytales
and Hans Christian Anderson. A lot of mythologies.

Call of the Wild, I'd forgotten that, that was my favourite book for ages as a kid.

Um. Lots, really. I'm having trouble remembering all of them off the top of my head.

ayrt

Yeah most of these are handmedowns from childhood :) The only new ones are We and Peter Pan that I've acquired as an adult. I remember reading the original Poccahontus and it was ok, holy shit dark though.

You've reminded me of the original Black Beauty, oh how I did like those. I don't own it though :( I also remembered the Incredible Journey (which I do own it was hiding between big books). I really like those old stories about animals, they're so different to modern day ones.

I remember Incredible Journey! I'd seen the movie first (Homeward Bound, 1993 version) and saw the book in the library, thought I'd try it. It was ... absolutely nothing remotely like the movie. It was really good, though.

Call of the Wild is still my favourite of the animal stories. Well, also Watership Down. And there was a series about owls, I can't for the life of me remember the name of it, but I remember loving them. Black Beauty was one of my favourites, though looking back on it I don't think I realised how depressing it was in places.

Animals of Farthing Wood, I only ever saw the cartoon. I loved it, though.

That's how I got the book too! I loved the movies when I was a child and I enjoyed the book just as much, but in a slightly different way. This thread is reminding me that I've always meant to read Tarka the Otter, but the books are hard to find.

I read Watership Down, but found it a bit overly done myself. Not to keen on the movie either, I guess it didn't click with me? Maybe because I have rabbits and was all "yep rabbits do that"
I did like the Plague Dogs tho! Another one I mean to own one day

What happened in the owl book? An old stories about owls rings a bell.

I couldn't read Plague Dogs. I tried, I did, but I got to the bit where they went to sleep in the incinerator and had to put it down because I was terrified. My sister read it all the way through, and says it turns out sort of all right in the end, but they go through so much horror first. She also watched the animated version. I remember rather vividly because she was watching it on a computer with headphones in, and at one point (the bit with the shotgun) she recoiled backwards from the screen so violently she almost fell off her chair. So. Uh. Never did get through that one.

I can't remember the owl ones. There was something about forest owls vs barn owls, having to move because humans were encroaching on them, but it was so long ago I just can't grasp it anymore. There was another series, about hares, that was the same. All I remember was a rather vivid description of a blinding disease, 'the white blindness'. It was rather creepy, actually.

I read a lot of animal books as a kid. A series about foxes, about owls, about hares. One book about feral dogs and cats in a post-apocalyptic town (I think that was called Tooth and Claw, but I'm not sure). Not so many about horses, for some reason (though for cartoons, The Silver Brumby was awesome).

I can reassure you that the ending in the books is much nicer than the ending in the cartoon, as nice as an ending after all those experiences can be.

The hare one sounds interesting, curse you tantalising single line.

I think my horse books were limited to the Silver Brumby and Black Beauty. Because I'm not a horse person, but those two sets were amazing in their own way. Might have read the odd short story as well, but nothing I can bring to mind.

The cartoon is amazing and I'm glad someone knows it! Everyone knows about the Animals of Farthing Wood and not the Silver Brumby :(

Count me as someone who didn't. The live-action movie, yes, but there was a cartoon? Must investigate. (I still have my massively worn-out VHS tape with both the live-action and the cartoon versions of Black Beauty.)

It would be interesting to read the owl ones if you can think of it. I'm used to them being the 'bad guys' in other animals' stories (Poppy, Silverwing, etc).

If you ever come back anon, I was asking the people at whatwasthatbook about the owls and hares.

Do any of these sound familiar?

Copy pasting:

The hare one could be Frost Dancers by Gary Kilworth.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frost-Dancers-Garry-Kilworth/dp/0246139153

The owl one could be The Lost Domain by Martin Hocke
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6519678-the-lost-domain

or The Ancient Solitary Reign also by Martin Hocke
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6491739-the-ancient-solitary-reign

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owls_in_the_Family

A lot of people reckon the hare one may be one of the books in the Watership Down series :x

So I'm not the only one who's read (and reread and reread and reread) Call of the Wild, but not White Fang? (I keep *meaning* to, but it never seems like the right time.)

...I think I may have read White Fang once, but Call of the Wild was the one I kept returning to :)

Ooh, proto-sci-fi - have you come across Lucian's True Stories? (/True History/various other English titles.) It's very like a proto-Gulliver's Travels and features what might be the first extant depiction of space travel. :D

Jane Austen. Wuthering Heights. The Three Musketeers (working on Count of Monte Cristo but it is slower going). Gone With the Wind. The Shakespearean tragedies, with particular emphasis on Macbeth, Othello, and Measure for Measure (okay, the last is one of the "dark" comedies but still, it is awesome and I wish I knew more people who loved it). The Great Gatsby. Alice in Wonderland. Pale Fire. Frankenstein. The Picture of Dorian Grey.

Probably others I am forgetting. There is, admittedly, an equally long list of classics I do not like, with Hard Times sitting on top of it since that one single-highhandedly led to me not finishing any other Dickens in university.

Also, I would say a few decades need to pass to see if a book can still stick around but beyond that, age doesn't really matter.

Edited 2013-02-18 03:30 (UTC)

-The lord of the rings.

-Jane Austen.

-Pérez-Galdós.

-Peter Pan.

-Dracula.

-Ars Amatoria.

-Frankenstein.

-Oscar Wilde.

-Wuthering Heights.

-Cyrano de Bergerac.

-José Saramago (he isn't still a classic, but he will be).

-The Lost Paradise.

-The Art of War.

-The Tao Te King

-Gone with the wind.

-ACD Sherlock Holmes.

-P.G. Woodehouse.

Edited 2013-02-18 15:23 (UTC)

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