Anyone into the classics?

annabelle · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject: Anyone into the classics?

I felt like this needed it's own post seeing as the bookworms section was swam ped with Shopaholics and Danielle Steel. Now, that's all good and well, but I was wondering if anyone is more into literature. By this I mean, Salinger, Huxley, Burgess, Fitzgerald, Orwell, etc.
I am in love with the works of JD Salinger. So far I've read Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and a couple of his short stories. I'm making my way through Seymour and the remainder of his short stories.
I love his themes, and the way they're all about detatchment from society. I feel I can relate to Holden Caulfield and the Glass family than any other characters.
I also love books that raise interesting dilemmas about society. I like how Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World both examine dystopian societies, but they do so from totally different angles. While I don't always agree with the authors' ideas, they're always good to fuel discussion and challenge the way one thinks.

So....anyone else bored with the chicklit on todays shelves and are into some good ol' fashioned literature?
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DeadDisco · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject:

I haven't had a chance to read many classics but I read 1984 and Animal Farm in English. It took me a little while to get into 1984 but I ended up really liking it. I liked the whole concept that Orwell was writing about.
I really want to read Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby.
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babiee_nicky · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject:

Yesss!
I love George Orwell
I've read all of the Anne of Green Gables books, 1984, Animal Farm, A Little Princess, Nine Stories and the Secret Garden.
And I dunno if I've read anymore classics.
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camita · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject:

I've read quite a few Emily Bronte and Jane Austen books. I like Henry James' Portrait of a Lady too. Then Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Beowulf, Catcher in the Rye, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and Stone Angel in school.
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crazykiki · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

Catcher in the Rye is one of my favorite books! i also liked anne of green gables, the secret garden, ive read pride and prejudice but i didnt really get what was hapening until the middle of the book so id like to read it again
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Lil_PinkBunnie · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:

Well I love Sherlock Holmes (though they're short stories), Of Mice and Men, Pride & Prejudice, and I've read all the Anne of Green Gables books (and seen all the movies) too!
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amyamy8 · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject:

"To Kill A Mocking Bird", "Lord of the Flies" are both really good.
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boarderlinefrenzy · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:35 am Post subject:

classics are pretty much all I read.
I'm really into the deep heavy stuff that takes a while to read. My favorite ever though is "Count of Monte Cristo" the movie is okay but the book is amazing.

Authors (more, just can't think and I don't feel like going to my bookshelf to look) Steinbeck, Capote (though not really classic), Bradbury, H.G. Wells, Austen, Orwell, Lewis Carrol, Donna Tartt (not a classic, but deffentatly hefty.. "Secret History"), Mary Shelley, Harper Lee, Fitzgerald, Earnest Hemmingway, Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison.

Books (my favorites)- The Communist Mannifesto, Farrenhite 451, The Scarlet Letter, All the Pretty Horses, East of Eden, As I lay Dying, Moby-Dick, The Time Machine, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, War of the Worlds (that gave me nightmares), The Importance of being Earnest, Welcome to the Monkey House (I actually read that book because I asked my dad what his favorite book was in college when I was on amazon and he told me about this one), A Street Car Named Desire.

And so much more.

Finally someone made a topic on this. I was too afraid to do it, thinking no one would answer because the bookwarms section is causeing many great authors to role over in their graves.
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Lorie-A · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:24 am Post subject:

dbee · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:05 am Post subject:

i read brave new world! Happy

i wasnt so sure about it when i finished if i really liked it or not, but i did. it was bizarre, and i do think its a very very veryyyy accurate depiction of where we are headed in the future, amazing that it was written awhile ago.
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jousy · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject:

I'm a serious Lit nerd! I was wondering when a topic like this would come up Happy

Some of my favourite works are:
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Genealogy of Morality (Nietzsche)
Ion; Apology; Phaedo (Plato)
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)
and even Paradise Lost (Milton)
to name a few off the top of my head.

Samuel Beckett isn't exactly an "oldie classic" since he's a 20th Century man but I love his writing so I thought I'd mention him.

I'll be hitting up Moliere's Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, maybe The Physician in Spite of Himself and Kafka's The Metamorphosis soon

whoot

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boarderlinefrenzy · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject:

^I love you, just because of that post.

<3
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jousy · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject:

^hahaha, thanks! ditto mon amie <3 lol
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Elizabeth · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:00 am Post subject:

I've been meaning to start reading more classic lit. I'm thinking of taking some English courses at University as an excuse. Happy

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t3hmimo · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject:

I've read a bit, but I want to read more! I wanna major in Eng Lit so I better get crackin!

xD But my favourite classic is Jane Eyre. Even though written in the 1800s, it had a real sense of feminism : D
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