Amazon Kindle & Fire discussion

I have to admit that Jane Austen is probably my favorite literary legend, and Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility are my favorite classics. She was such an enduring genius.

What's your favorite classic?

I love Pride & Prejudice, Gone With The Wind, Little Women and The Good Earth! Sorry, I couldn't pick just one.

Kathy wrote: "I love Pride & Prejudice, Gone With The Wind, Little Women and The Good Earth! Sorry, I couldn't pick just one."

It's all good. I guess I couldn't either! Nice choices :)

Yours too, Jennifer! I haven't read Sense & Sensibility yet, but mean to soon. :)

My favorite since high school is Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird".

David wrote: "My favorite since high school is Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"."

Thats a great one, too!

A few weeks ago, I read, for the first time!, "To Kill A Mockingbird". Excellent book!! I'm so sorry it's taken me all these years to read it!

Little Women

I probably read it 4 or 5 times and plan on reading it again. It may have been the first "adult" book I ever read. My Mom had a copy on her book shelves and I was maybe 9 or 10 when I got really bored one summer.

Anne wrote: "A few weeks ago, I read, for the first time!, "To Kill A Mockingbird". Excellent book!! I'm so sorry it's taken me all these years to read it!"

Yes! Love To Kill a Mockingbird! Why write more than one book when you hit a home run like that?

Ab-so-lutely, Jennifer...awesome book!

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

I've lost track of the number of times I've reread these.

My favorite from Sherlock Holmes is "The Hound of the Baskerville". But have you seen this Chihuahua of the Baskervilles. hehehe.

I would tell my favorite, but that would just duplicate what has been said before. :) I really love Austen's "Persuasion" and think it is somewhat overlooked. It is a theme she touches on in other books, that a person may be persuaded against their inclination and to their sorrow. It is a beautiful book and it is free on Kindle http://www.amazon.com/Persuasion-eboo...

I am going to have to read "The Good Earth."

I do a blog on free classic books (pre-copyright, 1923) at http://www.KindleClassics.com

Black Beauty

Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and The Scarlet Pimpernel are my faves. I love Les Misérables and The Count of Monte Cristo as well. There are just too many great books to just choose from!

I love anything by Hemingway. I especially like The Old Man and the Sea and the Nick Adams stories. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting for his work to go on sale for the Kindle, but no luck.

I just read The Old Man and the Sea for the first time this year and found its simplicity stunning. Needless to say, I loved it.

As for my favorites, as cliche as it sounds, I love Jane Eyre, and, surprisingly, Persuasion. I read Persuasion for the first time about three of years ago and was amazed at how much more I enjoyed it than Pride and Prejudice, which I had considered a favorite since I first read it when I was 15.

I'm a huge fan of Persuasion too. It's beautifully written and the story is precious. I love it.

1984 is currently my favorite, tied with The Day of the Triffids.

Matilda by Roald Dahl

There are some great choices in this thread.

It's a hard decision, but I think my favorites are Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Moby-Dick.

Actually, I just wrote a guest blog about revisiting the classics and which ones I would like to read again now that I am older. Here's the link, if you would like to read it. No pressure.

http://crazy-for-books.com/2012/01/bl...

I love Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, everything Sherlock Holmes,The Little Prince, and To Kill a Mockingbird. I am reading The Count of Monte Cristo right now and it will soon be on this list.

I LOVE MADAME BOVARY AND SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION both by FLAUBERT as well as METAMORPHOSIS, 1001 NIGHTS, AESOP's FABLES... do they count as classics?

Of mice and men. My second fav is the secret garden.

Mine would be Old Yeller, Green Eggs and Ham, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Hamlet, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charlotte's Web, and Shiloh.