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Worthy "Classic" Novels
StaedlerMars:
Get thee a 'classic short stories' book or something.
Read The Stranger or The Plague.
I also really like most things I've read by Hemmingway. Be prepared for shock sad endings though.
Gemmwah:
I read To Kill a Mockingbird at least once a year, but one of my absolute favourite classic novels is Jane Eyre. It often seems to be brushed over and called boring, but I find it so completely and utterly heartwrenching that I read it whenever I need a good cry.
SirJuggles:
See back in middle school we would read from these giant Literature books that were basically huge compendiums of short stories, and some of the stuff in them was absolute gold. We had to read A Sound Of Thunder about 5 times over the years, but there was one called The Cold Equations that I always would flip back to.
I felt that most of the "numbered" novels were pretty good. Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Catch 22. And I was one of the few people who really got into Thomas Hardy's stuff. At one point we had an individual choice on what book we wanted to read next from the list the teacher gave us, and I went with The Mayor Of Casterbridge. His stuff is doubly good because you can pretty safely assumed that everyone's gonna get fucked in the end.
Tom:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 22 Sep 2010, 10:05 ---Also: jumping on the Moby Dick bandwagon, and throwing in Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar on fifth for good measure.
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Seconded although in High School I had to read Hamlet and Othello. Those two are (Aristotelian) tragedies because supposedly great men fall victim to their own emotional vices, i.e. jealousy and excessive introspection. Highschool behaviour really.
Theriandros:
Shakespeare does not make for classic reading, particularly in high school. It should be seen on stage, as is its proper and superior place.
That said, I'm looking forward to finally digging into Crime and Punishment (I had a paperback copy that fell apart when I was halfway through, and I've only just now gotten a new copy).
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