♥!The Young Adult Book Club!♥ discussion

Do you read classic books?

Which ones were your favorite?

What are some that you want to read?

I've only read a few in school. The ones I really remember are To Kill A Mocking Bird, Brave New World, Night, The Great Gatsby and of course Shakespeare. I honestly never liked any of them. Night probably had the biggest impact just because it was so devastating about the Holocaust but the others I never really got into. I've been thinking about giving some a try again now that I am not bogged down with school work and might be able to appreciate them but honestly none have ever caught my attention. I ALWAYS hear about Wuthering Heights in EVERYTHING so I thought about finally reading it but it doesn't sound that great to me! LOL

I definitely recommend reading/re-reading classics! I just read a bunch of them to prep for college lit classes, and I gotta say, they're much better when you don't read them for assignments, classes, etc.

I don't frequently add them to my TBR list, but hopefully that'll change!

I LOVE To Kill A Mocking Bird. It's probably my favorite "classic," probably because it's not that 'old'; the language is understandable and the themes relatable. Same goes for 1984, The Great Gatsby, and Night.

I need to read more Victorian novels, mainly Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Charles Dickens. I love Jane Eyre, but it took me about a month to read, and I could barely get through A Tale of Two Cities. It's the language! That old timey language, while poetic and intricate, bores me to tears. Does anyone else feel that way?

And as for Shakespeare, I prefer it on stage than on paper.

I had to read To Kill A Mockingbird and Frankenstein in high school. I didn't mind TKAMB but I was surprised how much I really liked Frankenstein. I've been trying to get into more classics. I recently read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but I didn't love that. I have The Odyssey and tried reading it when I first got it but didn't make it very far. Eventually I'm gonna try again. Any recommendations for attention grabbing (and keeping) classics?

Harlee wrote: "I had to read To Kill A Mockingbird and Frankenstein in high school. I didn't mind TKAMB but I was surprised how much I really liked Frankenstein. I've been trying to get into more classics. I rec..."

Try fantasy/scifi. They're usually easier to get into:

Jane Eyre is another one everyone talks about but I haven't read any of Charlotte Brontë's books either.

I've read a fair few. I'm generally very curious to find out why a particular classic is called a classic. In my limited experience I'm finding that classics are largely hit or miss ( - Hit; - Miss for me).

Also, I've found that some of these 'deep' books, once read in high school, don't have the same kind of impact as when read a little older. I know for sure that if I had read in high school, rather than last year, I would not have enjoyed it at all.

So now I'm try reread some of the high school-read classics to see if a more mature, expanded world view will change my enjoyment.

There are so many great classics I recommend any of the Bronte work. It is so deep and looks at so many different aspects of Victoria life, like slavery and feminism.

Dickens is also good as he also does this but on a more epic scale. George Elliot is also worth a read.

Austen as well who I had to study this year at uni and see her in a different light now.

I have loved the classics since I was little. I got my first child's copy of Jane Eyre when I was six. The language has never bothered me if anything it has enhanced my experience during the read as I am transported even more to that world.

I've read Little Women just last year and I really liked it! It was simple enough, just day to day struggles of an American family. I would've thought it boring since not much went on, but I liked it better than I expected. The chapters revolve around the four sisters, and I hated every single one of Amy's chapters. At times they were infuriating, and other times they were just too damn boring to read.

I've tried reading Jane Eyre, but gave up on it when I read it and someone had died, even though I had no memories of someone dying. I also tried Wuthering Heights but couldn't understand the first page so I quickly gave up on that too. As for Shakespeare, I only read the No Fear editions and so far, only really liked the Merchant of Venice.

Ones I've Read: Jane Eyre, The Crucible, Invisble Man (The one by Ralph Ellison, not to be confused with The Invisible Man), Wuthering Heights, Animal Farm, Wizard of Oz, Catcher in the Rye, The Secret Garden, Where the Red Fern Grows.

Ones I've read and liked: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina, Phantom of the Opera, Shakespeare (I was going to list specific plays, but I'v read too many), The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sybil, Anne Frank, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Clockwork Orange, The Canterbury Tales, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Anthem.

There might be more, but those are the ones I can think of right now. I'm currently reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde which is just okay. Not bad. Not great. Just okay.

I have only read classic novels in high school but outside of high school I haven't.
I can't remember any more but those books were enjoyable to read

I have read Where The Read Fern Grows, The Giver, and The Secret Garden. I really liked all of those. I watched the Jane Eyre movie a year or so ago (I knew nothing about the book. All I saw was Jamie Bell's name in the description and I love that guy. He wasn't in the movie nearly enough for me!) But I liked it. I wouldn't mind giving the book a try.

I love the classics! I've read: A scandal in Bohemia, The Red Headed league, Where the Red Fern Grows, Old Yeller, Frankenstein, Dracula, To kill a mockingbird, The Invisible Man, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, The Canterbury Tales, The Odyssey, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet.

I would really recommend all of these except The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, because the were soooo slow and I didn't find them very entertaining, along with The Great Gatsby which I and several others read (thirty people) and found every character excessively annoying.

Working on a to read very soon list: Emma, some more Sherlock..., The Illiad, Pride and Prejudice, War of Worlds and Dr Jackyl and Mr Hyde.

You can never go wrong with Sherlock it seems though! Or Edgar Allen Poe! Those you need to read. I would also recommend Dracula, The Invisible Man, Great Expectations, The Canterbury Tales, The Odyssey and Hamlet.

Happy Reading All!

A. wrote: "I need to read more Victorian novels, mainly Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Charles Dickens. I love Jane Eyre, but it took me about a month to read, and I could barely get through A Tale of Two Cities. It's the language! That old timey language, while poetic and intricate, bores me to tears. Does anyone else feel that way?"

I felt the same way about A Tale of Two Cities, but honestly, you should read his other books as I found them so much better. Great Expectations is one of my all time favourites. It's sort of narrated by a child at the start so that can make the writing easier. I'd also recommend Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol.

YES. I LOVE THEM. Well, a selection of them.
I started with Austen. Yes, reading classics required some patience because when I started reading Austen and other novels set in the Victorian era, I didn't even understand half of what the characters said. They were much more reflective and the language was different. But I sort of persevered because their lifestyle (c'mon, look at those dresses), traditions and dialogue awed me. And boy, was I dearly rewarded. Most of my favorite books in the world are classics. And I loved their fictional couples. Elizabeth and Mr Darcy, Anne and Captain Wentworth, Margaret and Mr Thornton especially.

I think the love stories are the best. It's an emotional whirlwind, reading them (at least for me).


I like these dystopian classics as well:

(1984, not so much.. just the premise)

As for the others, I thought they were too dull. I tried to like Wuthering Heights or Beowulf or The Great Gatsby but they weren't as gripping for me. Still, I've a long reading list.

Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway are also great reads when it comes to short stories. :)

I've read the outsiders, for school, but I have read tkamb, the secret garden great Gatsby and currently reading pride and prejudice. I hated the great Gatsby, and not really liking p&p, the others I love

childrens classics- this was one of my favorites:

OK, I am currently reading The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. I'm loving it, just for the poetry of the language, if nothing else. There are some sentences that really get me.

I like reading Classics every now and then. Whenever I am at a bookstore, I try to find one or two on my list. I am hoping to collect as many as possible! :) Some of the favourites I have read so far are "Gone With the Wind," "Vanity Fair," "Pride and Prejudice," "The Swiss Family Robinson," and "The Yearling." A few on my T.B.R. List are "Anna Karenina," "Clarissa," "David Copperfield," and "Animal Farm."

My favorite classic books are still Jane Austen with Pride and Prejudice topping the list. Some of my other favorites include The Secret Garden, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Gone with the Wind, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Man, I do love a good gothic novel and nothing beats the Bronte sisters though I did read anything I could get my hands on by Edgar Allan Poe. I've never read much Dickens. I also wasn't into Tolkein. I would love to read Anna Kerenina and some more Ayn Rand.

I've read more classics than anything else. I even learned French and read French classics. Now I'm all "classicked out," ha ha ha. I'm gorging myself on current popular books.

I loved Anna Karenina, The Count of Monte Cristo, Little Women, The Hobbit, The Secret Garden, and The Giver. I'd like to read The Great Gatsby and 1984. But probably not any time soon. I'm too busy reading current stuff for once.

SHERLOCK HOLMES is they best- although to be honest I haven't actually finished all of the originals yet... :(
Agatha Christie is great, too--- her endings to the plots are always stunning!! But my favourite books from her are the ones with Tommy and Tuppence, because they are way more exciting than for instance the Poirot ones.

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