JazzyJake’s Comments (group member since Jun 24, 2008)

JazzyJake’s comments from the Classics group.

I dunno. I've slogged through "classics" that were numbingly bad reads and always wonder why genre fiction is automatically excluded from this hallowed distinction. I recently reread "Dune", for example, and it remains a classic in my world.

I've never been able to get into the world of the 19th century British gentry, so that whole class of classic novels eludes me.

Don't get me wrong, I likewise have a few bookshelves of classics - Faulkner, Tolstoy and Dickens are faves - but what is and isn't a classic is elusive.

Faulkner is a favorite, I'd probably list The Sound and the Fury as my number 1.

Interesting, I've attempted Scarlet Letter at least three times and just can't get interested. I'm fond of Hawthorne though, esp. The House of Seven Gables and the short stories. What do you find so interesting in The Scarlet Letter?