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Classics!
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This is sort of a book club for every CBer (and I know that there are quite a few) to band together and have a sort of book club about all the classics we love and love to talk about! There are all too few people who actually read classics for fun, not just for school, or manditorially.
First of all, I must talk about L.M. Montgomery. I absolutely love Anne of Green Gables, and, even more, The Emily Trilogy. For all of my eleventh year, I've tried to be like Emily (sadly, that got me into a lot of trouble--asking someone to critique your work can go in books but apparently not real life). I love the characters, and how Emily is like Lucy Maud herself, and how SHE WANTS TO BE A WRITER! There aren't enough books with girls like that!
And also I cannot neglect my British heroes: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, William Shakespeare--okay, I don't know if the last one counts, but he's legendary. I love all of their books, and read them more than any other modern novel. There are literally more books on my shelf written before 1960 than after, and even though I still do read Riordan and Paolini and Rowling--I can't quite say I love them as much as the classics.
After all, if a classic is a classic, it must be pretty good, right?
submitted by Everinne, age England, 14
(October 20, 2013 - 5:33 pm)
(October 20, 2013 - 5:33 pm)
Some Classics are just pain awesomeness. Anne of Green Gables falls in that category.
Does Little House on the Prairie count as a classic? If so, it's one of the books I grew up devouring. Same thing with Narnia. My family's and my friends and my siblings used to dress up like the characters and play out scenes from the books. I knew the story lines before I was old enough to fall in love with books. Really, Narnia is a classic for me.
The Hobbit was pretty awesome too. I haven't read the rest of the Lord of the Rings, but will do so in the future.
I love classics! Who's with me?
(October 20, 2013 - 8:00 pm)
I'm with you Corina! I LOVE classics. They are one of my favorite types of books! :)
I'm pretty sure Little House on the Prairie counts as a classic. Laura Ingalls Wider is a pretty popular author too.
What are those books about? I've heard about them, I just don't know if they're right for me. Does anyone recommend the Little House on the Prairie series?
-Nina
(October 26, 2013 - 8:28 pm)
Does anyone know Frances Hodgson Burnett? Like LM Montgomery, she is a very good author.
If you don't know who Frances Hodgson Burnett is, she wrote the classics The Secret Garden and A Little Princess. If you haven't read those books, I totally recommend them!
I wrote more about those books on my Fiction Fan Page. Check it out! The page is probably on the last page of Blab About Books.
I do shoutouts on my fan page too! Let me know if you want a shoutout.
-Nina
(October 28, 2013 - 4:12 pm)
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(October 20, 2013 - 8:26 pm)
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(October 20, 2013 - 9:17 pm)
I love Anne of Green Gables and Little House on the Prairie. Some of my other favorites are Jane Eyre and A Separate Peace. Little Women is also very sweet, if sad. I've tried and failed to read the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy. It's on my reading list though.
(October 21, 2013 - 10:19 am)
Same with me in re LotR.
I like classics, but I haven't read many recently, because there are still leftover tendencies from my fantasy entrenched past. I also like to read what I'm writing like, and part of the point of classic writing style is that it was in the past, so that doesn't work all the time. I do want to read more classics, though, including Anne of Green Gables (please don't throw rocks at me that I haven't read it yet).
(October 27, 2013 - 7:30 pm)
I love the Anne series! And every book that Alcott wrote. Her stories are so good!
Yes, Oliver Twist is a great book. :)
(October 21, 2013 - 4:57 pm)
Well, everyone knows what a HUGE Anne fan I am, so I really can't elaborate more on my love of Anne of Green Gables than I already have!
I also love Little House on the Prairie!!! I read through it first, and sometimes my dad reads it aloud. Though he dubs in zombies. It's actually really comical!
I have not read Narnia, or The Hobbit, or The Lord of the Rings series.
I ADORE Little Women and Louisa May Alcott books in general!
@ True: I recently got a book called The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott. I haven't read it yet, and it's not by Louisa, but it's about her. I don't know what it's like, but I thought I'd mention it.
(October 21, 2013 - 5:58 pm)
I...don't believe you included Charlotte Bronte? Jane Eyre was AWESOME. I suggest you all read it, right now.
I've also read Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys. Memorable books; very. Although it was really sad to know that she only continued the sequel through the next two books to get money. (I'm really sorry, guys.)
I started reading Oliver Twist, but I didn't finish it since I was so overrun with other books. What I read was really good! I'm going to finish it.
And currently, I'm reading Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen. Mostly as an excuse to watch the movie which stars Billie Piper. But I do want to read some of Jane Austen anyway.
(October 22, 2013 - 12:13 pm)
@BHR Really? Cool, I'll have tp see if I can get it! I'm also looking for her childhood diary, which (I hope ) will be fun to read!
@Blackberry Sequel to what?
(October 23, 2013 - 5:08 pm)
She had a diary?! That is so cool! I definitely want to read it!!!
(October 23, 2013 - 7:36 pm)
@True: Louisa Alcott wrote Little Men and Jo's Boys as sequels to Little Women.
(October 24, 2013 - 11:47 am)
@ Blackberry E:
No offence or anything, but I've never enjoyed Jane Eyre quite as much as I liked Wuthering Heights. Or Jane as a character compared to Cathy. They are pretty similar regarding their love lives, but Jane, in my opinion, is a bit uninteresting. My aunt thinks I'm morbid because Wuthering Heights is so tragic, but that's just my opinion.
It might just be the first-person storytelling of it. I think I would have liked it more if it wasn't told from Jane's perspective.
And Little House on the Prairie is totally a classic! I loved those books like crazy when I was younger! I think I still have them tucked away somewhere...
(October 24, 2013 - 10:22 pm)
@Everinne: Then I will surely read Wuthering Heights. I'll make it my next book.
(October 25, 2013 - 6:23 pm)