Classic Literature You Love
Because it's better to discuss things you like than sit around bitching online all day.
I'll start with a list: Krapp's Last Tape, The Screwtape Letters, Black Beauty, Robinson Crusoe, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Jungle Book, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Okay, go!
Treasure Island
It never fails to cheer me up and whisk me away to a world of pirate-y goodness.
Lord of the Rings and the X-Men comics.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
My all-time favorite book is Little Women.
Originally Posted by Fynn
David Copperfield, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Three Musketeers, The Grapes of Wrath, Pride & Prejudice, The Catcher in the Rye, Catch-22, Crime & Punishment, all Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Yossarian is probably my favourite literary character.
It's honestly rare for me not to like stuff that I read. That being said, I really haven't read that many classics, and most of what I read was in college. Here is a list of classics that stick out in my mind:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (a collection of short stories)
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Franny and Zooey by Salinger (I like this one a lot better than Catcher)
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Pretty much anything by Edgar Allen Poe
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
That's all that sticks out in my head right now. Some of them might not be considered "classics", I don't know.
Dostoevsky is my spirit animal.
Too many to list, but some of my absolute favorites:
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Labyrinths by Borges
Invisible Cities by Calvino
The Waves by Woolf
Darkness at Noon by Koelster
Under the Volcano by Lowry
Hard Times by Dickens
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
Harry Potter & Chronicles of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland.
Ok, I may be old, but certainly we're not all old enough yet to consider Harry Potter classic literature.
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lol I was sort of kidding on the Harry Potter bit
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Dracula
Frankenstein
Les Miserables
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Swiss Family Robinson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Hobbit
The Scarlet Pimpernel
To Kill a Mockingbird
Treasure Island
White Fang
My copies of White Fang and Treasure Island may be the books I've owned the longest.
One of my favourite books ever is Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, it's fabulous and I really must read it again.
Fahrenheit 451!
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