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Worthy "Classic" Novels
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: tender on 22 Sep 2010, 18:59 ---A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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You and me are fight.
LeeC:
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--- Quote from: LeeC on 22 Sep 2010, 17:21 ---on the subject of Shakespeare, Macbeth, Mid-Summer night's dream, and Romeo and Juliet are all good, Othello was good too, but I couldnt get into Hamlet.
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Romeo and Juliet I dislike quite a lot unless you read it as a comedy. Then it's fantastic.
Taming of the Shrew is a personal favorite as far as Shakespeare goes.
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yeah we read R&J as a comedy. Always wanted to read taming of the shrew.
Vuk:
How about cult classics? Stuff like Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. Two of my favourite novels of all time. Generally, however, I'll always hail the Russians as the greats of classic literature. I'm taking a course on Tolstoy right now at school, and one on Nabokov next semester - currently trying to make it through War and Peace. Book is so long, but I feel like it will be worth it.
Buttfranklin:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 22 Sep 2010, 17:39 ---is H.P. Lovecraft considered classic? Because it's certainly old.
If it is, I recommend everything by Lovecraft.
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Well, not so much "classic literature," as it is "classic horror." Close enough, though.
Also, Gravity's Rainbow. Haha, just kidding.
satsugaikaze:
--- Quote from: LeeC on 22 Sep 2010, 22:16 ---yeah we read R&J as a comedy.
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Baz Luhrmann did not help.
Also, I remember being hooked on The Lost World and White Fang when I was a kid.
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