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Post by sharon on Aug 6, 2014 20:10:49 GMT -6
I just read Lord of the Flies for the first time ever. It was very good and extremely creepy - really everything I imagined, having picked up the basics from popular culture. Yet, there was plenty of suspense.
I also read Pride and Prejudice this year, which I didn't much like, and The Great Gatsby which I did.
I'm surprised sometimes by the classics I was never required to read in school, such as those three.
What's a classic do you love or hate? Are there any you want to read that haven't yet? or re-read? Any you think everyone should read?
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Post by dara1012 on Aug 7, 2014 13:37:19 GMT -6
I want to re-read Wuthering Heights.
Some classics that I have never read, but feel like I should at some point: Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, Jane Eyre, A Tale of Two Cities, Lord of the Flies, War & Peace, Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn.
My English class in high school focused a lot on African and South American literature and not as much on American literature. I loved Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude, while not "classics" in a traditional sense. I think they are.
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