Anyone actually bother to read classics anymore?

Will this thread be ignored like all my others?

Duh yes	32.6%	[ 15 ]
Never!	45.7%	[ 21 ]
whu carez i want gold	21.7%	[ 10 ]
Total Votes:			[ 46 ]

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[Benhime]

Sure, Twilight and Harry Potter are great books, but what about the really famous old stuff? It's not famous for no reason. And don't think I'm an old fart who thinks children should read more; I'm in 8th grade. The classic books are written in sort of an annoying style sometimes, like, extremely descriptive, but I like that - it makes a much clearer image in your mind. I'm kinda writing this because I just finished all 829 abbridged pages of Les Miserables(yes, the abridged version has 829 pages. Scary, huh?) and I LOVED it. That book is amazing! (made me cry, too.)

It kind of annoys me how half the threads here are about Twilight. I loved Twilight, it was awesome. But now that I've read a good book, it just doesn't seem that awesome anymore. Cosette + Marius > Bella + Edward. So what I'm trying to say here is, classics are not for freaky old people or insane nerds. They are awesome literature. I recommend Les Miserables, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Man and the Sea, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Ender's Game(especially this one for people who like Sci-Fi), and (even though I personally didn't like it) Pride and Prejudice.
Read 'em!!!

[Kawzmohs]

Benhime

Sure, Twilight and Harry Potter are great books, but what about the really famous old stuff? It's not famous for no reason. And don't think I'm an old fart who thinks children should read more; I'm in 8th grade. The classic books are written in sort of an annoying style sometimes, like, extremely descriptive, but I like that - it makes a much clearer image in your mind. I'm kinda writing this because I just finished all 829 abbridged pages of Les Miserables(yes, the abridged version has 829 pages. Scary, huh?) and I LOVED it. That book is amazing! (made me cry, too.)

It kind of annoys me how half the threads here are about Twilight. I loved Twilight, it was awesome. But now that I've read a good book, it just doesn't seem that awesome anymore. Cosette + Marius > Bella + Edward. So what I'm trying to say here is, classics are not for freaky old people or insane nerds. They are awesome literature. I recommend Les Miserables, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Man and the Sea, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Ender's Game(especially this one for people who like Sci-Fi), and (even though I personally didn't like it) Pride and Prejudice.
Read 'em!!!

I'm in the 10th grade and I have made a resolution, a resolution to read every (well known) literary classic so that I may be a better read person and subsequently a better writer who can wipe the floor with Meyer and Paolini.

The only technical classic I have read so far is The Count of Monte Cristo (4.5/5 stars) and am beginning Jane Eyre.

I've read Ender's Game- I can't remember if I cried but considering what Ender went through I probably did, or at least became depressed.

I've also read the lesser known: The Last Unicorn, A Wrinkle in Time, The Call of the Wild, The Giver, The Wizard of Oz (I don't know if it counts but at least I read the book), Ethan Frome, and The Hobbit.

Also Interview with the Vampire which employs the classic vampires, not the perfect angels of Meyer's. They don't even have fangs, which is what I find so sexy about them.

I attribute the current generation's lack of interest in literature to the emphasis on physical appearances in television, video games, and even sports. Access to the TV is easy and everyone can watch the same show as someone else and so share a common interest without doing anything but absorbing information by viewing. Reading requires us to think, analyze, memorize and more- we must imagine what is happening by using the provided words, which requires thinking. Not too mention that reading excessively is considered to be a nerd trait in TV and video games so that doesn't help.

[Tenkai_Star]

I am also trying to read more classics, because I've only read a few in my lifetime. I'd really like to read a lot more before I start college this fall, but I don't know how well that's going to work. sweatdrop
So far I've read The Three Musketeers, Jane Eyre, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter (twice, and I never want to read it again), 1984, 4 Jane Austens, Candide (weirdest book ever), Siddhartha, and I think that's it.
Right now I'm working on my first Shakespeare, Hamlet. I really like it.
I'd really like to read at least, Wuthering Heights, some Charles Dickens, some more Shakespeare, Ethan Frome, and The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Don't ask me why those books in particular, because I don't really know.

[Rhiminee]

I've read Ender's Game. I didn't think anyone thought it was 'classic'. I liked it, though. Orson Scott Card is a great writer.

But I'm not into classics. Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde are alright, but the rest of the books school tried to get me to read made me fall asleep. But that doesn't mean that I think Twilight and Harry Potter and Eragon are the alpha and the omega.

There are some really good books out there; they don't have to be half a century old. =(

[Le DCB]

I tried reading Hemingway, but I was extremely bored with it. I've read Animal Farm and The Lord of the Flies. Those books, along with A Separate Peace are some pretty awesome books. 3nodding
I'm not sure if they'd be considered "classics," though. sweatdrop

[Satai Aalann]

I love the classics! I actually bought some of them to read on my own and keep on my bookshelf. I've bought The Phantom of the Opera, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Wuthering Heights, Emma, Dracula, The Three Musketeers, Grimm's Fairy Tales, a Shakespeare Anthology, and The Divine Comedy.

I've read The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Letter, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, 1984, Henry IV Part I, King Lear, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Oedipus Rex, Agamemnon, Antigone, The Libation Bearers, Roots, and A Brave New World. I'm sure I've read more classics, but I can't remember them all.

[Porcelain-Panic]

i'm 13 and i did the picture of Dorian Grey for my last book report.

the oral presentation was so annoying because no one else in my class understood the phycological aspect that i was trying to explain... then again, they didnt even understand the their own novels so it does make sence...

[KushielsHandmaiden]

I love the classics. Jane Eyre and The Count of Monte Criso were my favourites. I've read every play Shakespeare has written, also several of his sonnets. I've read The Illiyiad and the Odssedy(please forgive my spelling), Wuthering Heights, though I didn't really care for it...and I can go on and on, but the classics are awesome! I think, personally, every serious reader should read the classics. ^.^ I'm hoping to instill a love of reading classic novels in my daughter when she gets older.

[Mr. mori]

Yes, I understand what you mean. Too many times I make a reference to a classic piece of Liturature, and the people around me then look at me with a question mark upon their faces.

Personally, I am quite fond of the classics. Alexandre Dumas, H.G.Wells, Daniel Defoe, Jane ustin, Bram Stoker, to name a few.

[Ronzer Bayleaf]

My favorite is and always will be Frankenstein. I like War of the Worlds also.

[Northawke_rs]

I think the classics are read quite often still, but perhaps usually by a somewhat older age-group than the average bookforum Gaian. Personally I like reading combinations of both classic and modern books, just whatever suits my fancy, really.

[Jackie-senpai]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
Lets compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse...

*stares over at her bookshelf* The Three Musketeers, Phantom of the Opera, The Count of Monte Cristo, an Edgar Alan Poe anthology, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and Hamlet.

Lets unwrite these pages
And replace them with our own words...

[Klaark]

I like them because they tend to be dirt cheap.

[Mango Thief]

classics are okay!

i like some:

not all

they can't be dry

[liowkc]

The reason classics are classics is because they endure; ignore them at your loss!