Classics!!

They didnt make us read too many classics during school. I did have to laugh at the boys reactions to have to read Emma in year 12. "It's such a girls book" I love the assumption that just because its by Jane Austin girls must love it!!! I dont know how many times i told them that i wasnt enjoying it any more than they were.

That being said i have just finished the Pride and Prejuduce mini-series and am half way through the book....totally loved it!

As for Shakespear i have a real soft spot for all of his work. Motsly becuase i did a lot of drama in high school and loved playing his characters.... espeically Lady Macbeth.

Macbeth, Macbeth. MACBETH!!!!!!
I want to scream out Macbeth to those my heart wouldn't allow me to trust, with good reason, now.

We did Macbeth about a billion times in school. In drama and english and even in art! and every time the teacher would bring it out people would grone and say we have already done it. I would have this huge smile on my face! I dont know why, but i really loved it!

Bellas Blanky wrote:

We did Macbeth about a billion times in school. In drama and english and even in art! and every time the teacher would bring it out people would grone and say we have already done it. I would have this huge smile on my face! I dont know why, but i really loved it!

And what's more, i just want to scream out Macbeth upon both the Volturi and the Strigoi, and get rid of any potent problem from them, that way.

And if it turns out that they got the wrong lady to be Angel Princess Lissa Dragomir, make sure i get restrained from screaming Macbeth at the people directly responsible for it, alright?

I shall do my very best

Bellas Blanky wrote:

I shall do my very best

For my sake and for theirs, i hope you do that, or else there's going to be alot of rolling heads and ripped throats, i feel, and i doubt that it would include my own head and throat, for that matter.

I don't want whoever plays Lissa to be Mis-casted, at all...Lissa's supposed to be an angel, for crying outloud.

Has anyone here read THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY?
I tried. I really, really tried, and coming from a compulsive reader, that should have made a difference. But it didn't.
If you haven't read that book, don't. I found it impossibly boring.

I've tried reading Dorian Gray. Couldn't. lol But really the only classic novel I've read that *wasn't* for school was Jane Eyre (fave). Other than that I don't read a lot of classics, though I'd like to. I feel so uncultured.

I haven't read Dorian Gray, but I own it. I bought a copy a few months ago, but my sister read it first. She really enjoyed it though. I guess I'll just have to wait and see for myself.

My english classes this session have some classics (and if not the most well known of books, Classic authors). I've always wanted to read a few more of, and now I have to. My guess is that I wont enjoy them all that much though because I'm being forced into it.

lol Yeah. The only book I actually enjoyed in school was To Kill a Mockingbird. But I generally hated English. I really hated Animal Farm and The Scarlett Letter. *GAh*

Why can't we read more books like VA in english class?

I know! I understand that teachers what students to have a wide knowledge of the written world and all that jazz, but wouldn't it be better to give the students something they'd enjoy?
I always got annoyed at my english teachers. We had graded classes and I was in the top class for the majority of my high school years. The lower classes got to read Harry Potter and we didn't!

They probably figured Harry Potter was too easy for you. Maybe you can use VA for an Independent Study?

Yeah, that's what I figured too, but it still would have been nice to study it.

I just bought Jane Eyre to read later!

Jane Eyre actually has a sort of supernatural element to it. It's not like magic or anything outrageous, but there is a small part that is a bit unreal, considering everything else in the book is very proper and historical feeling. lol It's my favorite.

I haven't read it, but I heard somewhere that there's a sort of ghostly feeling to it (at least, I think that's what I heard)

Yeah, it's considered gothic literature. It's great though.

My mum wanted me to read it after I'd finished Wuthering Heights, but I never got around to it. I'll put it on my list of things to read, but I doubt I'll have time until summer (or, um...winter for the Northern Hemisphere people)

Phew... lots of classic mentioned here! Let's see, LOVELOVELOVE R+J, Macbeth I was made to read in HS and enjoyed it, I also had to read 'Of Mice & Men' in like Year 10 and thought it was rather depressing

I read Catcher in the Rye by choice and fell in love with it!

Tried reading Wuthering Heights and couldn't get past the first 10 pages - just wasn't doing ot for me I think!!!

My Top Fave Five Classics in no particular order.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut,

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ( BTW i thought the pride and prejudice and Zombies was a spoof i didnt know it was a real book )

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Lover (French: L'Amant) by Marguerite Duras

My classics list would be:
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis

And I hope the list grows.

So i was on bn.com ( Barnes and Nobles bookstore) and found a super deal. They have bundles of 6 or 7 classic novels all for 20-25 bucks. Not bad.