Anyone actually bother to read classics anymore?

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Duh yes	32.6%	[ 15 ]
Never!	45.7%	[ 21 ]
whu carez i want gold	21.7%	[ 10 ]
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[whateverfloats]

Cobbled Goldfinch

I'm sure there are several abridged versions, but I don't think I've read them. They probably chop out a lot of the political backstory, being that it doesn't always have relevance to modern readers- I remember I was about fifteen when I read it, and I honestly knew very little about pre-revolutionary French political parties, so those bits didn't always make a lot of sense.

I think it's easier to abridge books that are very clear-cut as stories, as opposed to story and theory and three different subplots.

Yeah. I was twelve when I read it and didn't know much about the French Revolution either, but that's why I was curious enough to read those sections. The Battle of Waterloo though, man, that chapter I definitely skimmed. I find it hard to believe anyone ever read the whole thing. lol

Because of it's slightly fractured nature Les Mis wouldn't be too difficult to abridge. In fact, I think it would greatly benefit from a good editor.

[Phoenixliv]

Have any of you read that "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"? That book looks really interesting! It's the plot of Pride & Prejudice with a background plot of a zombie apocalypse.

[Mourants Beaute]

The last classic I read was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I thought it was really good. I want to read Frankenstein now...

[Moyayuki]

I haven't sat down and read a piece of fiction in a long time, but recently I felt the urge to read Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It's the only classic I've willingly read, and not for a school assignment, besides The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia books. And I must say, I'm quite hooked on it! Checked it out from my college library on Monday and have been burning through it with 100 pages read a day. It's so intriguing! And I was inspired to read it after watching Disney's 1996 film for the first time since I was a little girl.

[aermo]

For the past two years I have read only classic books and I don't regret my decision.
I haven't read twilight or the newer harry potter books and I dunno what's the fuss about them .

[clovereffect]

Phoenixliv

Have any of you read that "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"? That book looks really interesting! It's the plot of Pride & Prejudice with a background plot of a zombie apocalypse.

I tried to read it. Maybe I'm a little too touchy about people butchering classics, but I thought it was unbelieveably awful. It's not clever or interesting at all. It's just Pride and Prejudice with repetitive zombie scenes stuck in at random.

Seth Grahame-Smith earned himself a spot on my black list for that one.

[QueenOfGeeks529]

I've been wondering this for a while....how old does a book have to be to be a "classic". I've seen Fahrenheit 451 (Which is one of my ABSOLUTE favorite books.) called a classic before.....

[Kurokashi-san]

I'm sorry, but Pride and Prejudice and Zombies should never be spoken off in the terms of classic novels. I refuse to pick up something that would butcher a great work of literature.

Speaking of the classics I picked up Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novel and Stories Volume 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Wal Mart for only $4.97. At 1059 pages I feel I got me a great deal on one of the classics of the mystery genre.

[Guida E Guardiano]

I loved Little Women, and am currently working on Pride & Prejudice, the Count of Monte Cristo and a few others I have in my room. Phantom of the Opera, the book, was superb. The musical is also good, but in an entirely different way.

[Manderson]

QueenOfGeeks529

I've been wondering this for a while....how old does a book have to be to be a "classic". I've seen Fahrenheit 451 (Which is one of my ABSOLUTE favorite books.) called a classic before.....

If you ask me a book is a classic when it has had time to be torn apart by a multitude of English majors, whether their right or not doesn't exactly matter. I just feel like that's when you know a book should be considered a major.

As for me. I picked up Ishmael a few days ago.