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Soo...because I am reading a very large number of classics at the moment (technically rereading; most of them I've read before), I'm just curious to know--does anybody else read classics? And by classics, I mean things like Les Miserables and Robinson Crusoe. At the moment, I'm reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (aaaaahhhh), Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, and one you probably haven't heard of: Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undsen. I've also read The Sword in the Stone, Stuart Little, Black Beauty, Peter Pan, Little Women...quite a few, actually.
The obsession with classics is kind of a thing my dad encouraged, and I am very grateful for it. Anybody who thinks classics are boring has obviously never read any--they might not be as action-packed and thrilling as modern books, but the quality and writing style has a unique charm to it, and it really, really helps with vocabulary and grammar.
So, does anybody else love classics, too? Or is it just me? Waiting patiently for your responses--tell me all about the ones you've read! Admins, you join in, too! (And no, the abridged versions don't count-yuck!)
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~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
P.S. Yes, I am aware that I made a classics thread a while ago, but by now it's probably on the tenth page at the very least.
Yes, I love the classics! The Secret Garden, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Les Miserables--a great story is eternal!
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submitted by Wolfgirl67, age ~13~, Making my first
(March 5, 2011 - 5:56 pm)
(March 5, 2011 - 5:56 pm)
Well, I really like Anne of Green Gables, the first few anyway, and I really want to read Les Miserables (spelling?) and Jane Eyre. I also read some of Little Women when I was ten-ish and I have the Railroad Children, Solomon's Mines, Treasure Island, and quite a few other classics in my room. I've forgotten about them. (I got them when I was nine I think, and I didn't really like them) I'll probably start reading them soon. :-)
(March 5, 2011 - 8:26 pm)
@Olive: Be warned-Les Miserables is 1,222 pages long. BUT-it is one of the greatest books I've ever read. I loooove Victor Hugo...sigh...I also really want to read Jane Eyre! And the other Anne of Green Gables books!
@Thread: And in five...four...three...two...one...BLAST OFF! Straight to the top!
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(March 6, 2011 - 1:53 pm)
I've read a few classics, and I love them. The Secret Garden is one of my favorites; I've loved it ever since I was six. Unfortunately, I somehow lost my copy (which is only made worse by the fact that that copy also contained Peter Pan and The Treasure Seekers, which I loved, but not as much as TSG), which really made me sad. I hated not having any copy of it, though, so I bought another one, though I don't have as many memories with it. I've also read The Little Princess by the same author and The Little Prince, which is completely unrelated except for the act that it's an amazing classic. I've also read Little Women, but I actually didn't like it somehow. It bored me. The writing was good, but it was just about Mary Sues trying to become more Sueish, and... it just didn't interest me. I've also read Charlotte's Web and To Kill A Mockingbird and A Christmas Carol and Lord of the Rings. Oh, and Romeo and Juliet, and the first 5 Anne of Green Gables books. Do the Nancy Drew books count as classics? I've read a few of those. It sort of feels like the Chronicles of Narnia are becoming classics, too. Oh, and I've read Alice In Wonderland! Not the sequel, though.
Didn't you once say you also read Heidi? What's it like?
Have you read The Willoughbys by Louis Lowry? It's not a classic, but it's a parody of them. It's brilliant.
Oh, I forgot to mention To Kill a Mockingbird before. That's one of my very favorites, too, and I just reread it about a year ago.
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(March 6, 2011 - 3:44 pm)
The only unabridged classic I've read is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (that is a classic, right?) Oh, and The Secret Garden. I've read the Great Illustrated Classics version of Little Women and a bunch of others that I dont remember. They're really very interesting and I hope to read the actual version soon.
(March 6, 2011 - 3:59 pm)
You've got to love the classics. I'll have to look into reading Les Miserables.
I love Wuthering Heights, Of Mice and Men, and Treasure Island; Peter Pan was okay, too.
(March 6, 2011 - 5:17 pm)
@Ima: Heidi is brilliant! It's about a girl who goes to live with her hermit grandfather on top of a mountain, but gets taken away by her aunt after two years to go live in the town and be a companion for an invalid girl. It's amazing, I've read it over and over, ever since I was six and first read the original. (*brags*)
@Heather A.: Yes, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer counts. I've never read it myself, but I'm going to sometime soon.
@Katie: I'm just curious...is Wuthering Heights scary at all? Because we have it, and it's intriguing me, but I don't like scary stories. *shivers*
Andy P. C. says gout. Isn't that a disease? Poor Andy...:(
~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
I read Wuthering Heights a looooong time ago. I remember that I loved it. It's definitely mysterious, but I don't remember it being reallly scary. Katie will know better because she must have read it more recently.
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(March 6, 2011 - 7:26 pm)
@Admin: When you said "Rebecca", did you mean Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm? 'Cause I love that story! :)
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~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is good, too, but I meant a book just called Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
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(March 6, 2011 - 7:29 pm)
Oh, yes, the Willoughbys! It's really good. But it's not a classic...
I think I've read Black Beauty since it's in my room, but it might be abridged and I don't remember reading it... Oh, and I want to read Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, I read the abridged version in Grade 2, I think, but I might have trouble sleeping. Does anyone now if it's creepy?
(March 6, 2011 - 8:21 pm)
Heidi sounds good. I forgot to mention reading Misty of Chincoteague, but I've read that, too. I might have also read Stormy, Misty's Foal, but I'm not sure. I've definitely read King Of The Wind and Album of Horses (nonfiction, not a classic but a somewhat relevant book to this discussion) by the same author. I've also read Black Beauty and National Velvet.
Aetc says mgkc! Magick(e)! Maybe he's been healed by it! I hope so.
(March 6, 2011 - 8:55 pm)
@ Wolfgirl--I started reading Kristin Lavransdatter in January and got more then halfway through before I got sick of her moping around and always freaking out that someone would realize she liked Erlin (I forget how to spell his name). My mom's reading one of the books at the moment.
I was also going to try to read Les Mis, but I am currently caught up in Jane Eyre once more. One of my favorites is A Christmas Carol, even though it's pretty short. I completely agree with what you said about classics. My mom, and the large numbers of classic British dramas I watch, has inspired me to read more of them, however tedious they start out.
(March 7, 2011 - 8:14 am)
I’ve read:
Tom Sawyer, Heidi, Black Beauty, Sherlock Holmes, The Count ofMonte Cristo, The Secret Garden, The Enchanted Castle(if that counts as a classic.),Caddie Woodlawn(if that’s a classic), Laura Ingalls(I bet you can guess whatI’m going to write here.), Charlotte’s Web(I don’t know if I finished it…),Shipwrecked( John Lewis Stevenson. I think all his books are classics.), The first Anne of Green Gables. Those are the ones I can think of sofar. I started Oliver Twist and Pride and Prejuduce but had a little troublewith the way it was written. I’m going to read Little Woman and maybe a littlemore Dickens… I am also going to read Treasure Island, Edgar Allen Poe andGullivar’s Travels.
(March 7, 2011 - 12:07 pm)
Oh, I forgot about some of those! I've also read the Little House books about Laura (I'm going to write a fanfiction of it that takes place in space this summer, in case anyone who hasn't heard about it already is interested) as well as a few books about her family members, and I've read The Raven by Poe, though that's not a book.
(March 8, 2011 - 7:57 pm)
Oh and To kill a Mockingbird.
I looove To Kill a Mockingbird! I try to read it every year at the start of summer. -Admin
(March 7, 2011 - 12:08 pm)
To Kill a Mockingbird is the "ultimate," as all my friends from school say. I'd just read it recently, and loved loved loved it. It is very good.
@Wolfgirl67- No, Wuthering Heights is not scary. It is a bit dark in some places, as it deals with revenge and the darker side of human nature, but it is not scary.
(March 8, 2011 - 7:16 pm)
@ Admin-- I'm guessing that's one of your favorites?
I like it too! It's sad though... And I have one more book to add to my list: A Separate Peace. Has anyone read that?
(March 9, 2011 - 1:50 am)