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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[horse brutality]

i love classics~
i've read... 1984, to kill a mockingbird, merchant of venice, hamlet, aaand i'm reading lord of the flies and phantom of the opera.

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[Phantomhorse1810]

Classics are amazing. This is fact. Now I am in 8th grade, but I read at least 200 pages a day. Even I will admit some classics make you say how long can a person write for? Still all are amazing. I just finished the unabridged Les Miserables for the third time in a month (god I"ve been lazy with that book); a total of 1472 pages. Now there is my favorite classic, kiddish at times, but extremely well written: The Wizard of Oz. The whole series by L. Frank Baum is wonderful, a total of 14 books. There is The Lord of the Rings trilogy which I read in 4th grade, and The Cronicals of Narnia in 3rd. All of Dickens work is long, but stunningly good, Great Expectations is my personal favorite.

Now everyone read the classics, they are 'classic' for a reason.

Reading helps your grammer, writting, talking, and other aspects of your life. This is very true.

Another thing I love with classics is how many good ones are out there, pick up any classic and you will be in love with it. 3nodding

[EveryEden]

Benhime

...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!!!

This makes me feel like you take a lot of heat from friends about what you read. Maybe not.

I agree that people should give classics a try, but that's my philosophy on all kinds of lit/movies/music/food, etc. because you won't know if you love or hate something until you try it. My dad always said (while I was in junior high and high school) that teachers were the worst thing to happen to novels, because I gaurantee you that 9 times out of 10 you'd enjoy a book more if you weren't being lectured and graded on it, so I don't give much credit to kids who say, "I tried classics! I read Charles Dickens in English class!"
Of course you did.
Please try to read something and think about it for yourself instead of tuning the author out and just being spoonfed what your teacher thinks you should know about the book.

Some people have sincerely given classics a shot and just don't like them, and that's fine. There's nothing wrong with knowing what you do and don't like, as long as you give them a try.

[I Make Boys go BOOM]

Oh yes, I love the classics although A tale of two cities bore me to death sad . I've read Little Women, Animal Farm, Farenheit 451, Interview with a vampire, Pride and Prejudice, Tristan and Isolde series, Little Princess, etc

[Moonligh Serenade]

I've read Sherlock Holmes, but I don't know it that counts...

[Phantomhorse1810]

Moonligh Serenade

I've read Sherlock Holmes, but I don't know it that counts...

It counts. They are quite the good books.

[Divyani]

I am absolutely in love with the classics. heart I have read so many, however, that I'd rather not have to list them all. It's hard for me to find a decent, modern book these days that isn't childish or poorly developed. I suppose I have a soft spot in general for classics.

[Luz da Lua]

I like some classics, like Little Women, The Lord of the Rings (if those count), and Black Beauty (kinda) (to name a few), but in most, the language just puts me straight to sleep. In our English class we had to read The Pearl by Steinbeck- I actually stopped reading in the middle of chapter 4. (which is really BAD for me because I love reading and can read super sonic fast, even in text books) I especially like vampire books and I stopped reading Dracula on page 56... is that bad? cry

[libreg]

If you count "1984" as a classic...

the only classic book I've read recently is "Rhetoric" by Aristotle and "The Antichrist" by Friedrich Nietzsche, but they're both philosophy so...

[Darkphoenix811]

I want to read classics; I think they're amazing. The problem is, the ones I want to read are also amazingly long, and the time I have to read is amazingly short, so they have a tendancy to be returned to the library before I've finished them. I do plan to read the complete works of William Shakespeare exactly as soon as I have time to do so (even the ones I've seen many times and know very well).

[Dried P e a c h e s]

I read the first part of Les Miserables, the unabridged version, and I was nearly put to sleep. Sure, I'm a fan of description, but not that much description. It drove me nuts. Now, I'm not sure if these are considered classics, but I've also forced my way through To Kill a Mockingbird and Anthem by Ayn Rand. The former was alright, the latter made me wanna raise it's author from the dead and shoot her. Repeatedly.

As for right now, I'm reading A Tale of Two Cities which I don't really have an opinion on yet and I'm beginning to make my way through Moby d**k. Again, I haven't formed an opinion about it yet. Oh, and I just fininshed reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde I can't really say whether I like the classics or not... Some are alright, others horrid, but I've yet to find a really good one...

[Phoenix Abbot]

The classics win every time as far as I'm concerned. Jane Austen's still my favorite author, despite all the "greats" that are writing now.

[Arrianna_McBurl]

I think everyone should at least TRY to read classics on their own time. I've read, *looks at bookshelf* The Great Gatsby, The Iliad, The Oddessey, The Aeneid,Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, A Raisin in the Sun, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Pride and Prejudice, The Divine Comedy, Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Fahrenheit 451, The Ramayana, The Popol Vuh, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, An Old Fashion Girl, The Phantom of the Opera. Of course, I didn't like ALL of them, but most of them were reaonably fun, and/or enjoyable. For example, The Phantom of the Opera is great, Erik is a riot, I never could figure out why Christine went with Raoul, He got himself stuck in a trap, the idjit. And of course, The Divine Comedy is just way to cool not to be liked. It's the basis for how we view hell in the modern society after all. My favorite part in the Iliad is when Homer gives the description of what happens to Hector right before he goes out to fight Achilles. It's so sad, and yet so sweet, bittersweet would be the correct term, yes?

[Caramelchan]

II Demon X II

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

I would just like to totally agree with you. Frankenstein is an amazing book. I have also read War of the Worlds, as well as Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and a number of Shakespeare's works. At the moment I'm reading Lord of the Flies for my Literature exam and I'm hoping to read soon: Dracula and Phantom of the Opera.

[Lily Twitchfit]

Oh, they're pretty much all I read! I adore the classics. I love Charles Dickens. (A Tale of Two Cities is my favorite.) And I looooove classic science fiction, too. HG Wells, Bradbury, ahhhh...I'm reading the Metamorphosis right now. Just read Lolita, too. All wonderful books. I love Frankenstein and War of the Worlds, too!