What's your favorite "Classic"?

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Remember all that required reading you had to do in school? Or just the classics you read on your own? Were there any classic books (i.e., Tom Sawyer, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ivanhoe, etc.,) or stories that stuck with you? Name your favorites!
Mine is, well...


The Complete Annotated Sherlock Holmes. The whole nine yards. All of it.
 
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I didn't like any of the books we were required to read in high school, except The Hobbit (but I'd already read that one in primary school).

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
various Agatha Christie novels
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
War of the Worlds
Dracula
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lord of the Rings
The Cosmic Trilogy
 
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To Kill a Mockingbird was probably my favorite from school readings. There was also a short story I was absolutely in love with (and still am) that I just can't find anywhere called The Euphio Machine. Fantastic Sci-fi
 
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Tintin said:
I didn't like any of the books we were required to read in high school, except The Hobbit (but I'd already read that one in primary school).

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
various Agatha Christie novels
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
War of the Worlds
Dracula
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lord of the Rings
The Cosmic Trilogy
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I enjoyed Dracula quite a bit lol.
 
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Tolstoy's War and Peace is my all time favorite. It was the first time I thought of the impact of the thinking and God understanding of the common man having any impact on our world.

Dicken's Tale of Two Cities affected me deeply, too.
 
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I really enjoyed reading call of the wild, where the red fern grows, of mice and men, grapes of wrath, and the river runs through it.
 
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flight316

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All of Shakespere; what's with the avatar?
 
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Tintin

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Ah, Call of the Wild. That was a good one. Written by Jack London, yes?
 
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My favorite classic was "Light in August" by Wm Faulkner. One of his chapters is one sentence long: "My mother is a fish".
Though I'm joking about my liking the book, I am telling the truth about the chapter containing only one sentence.

I like "Pride and Prejudice". I like Austin and Alcott. Though maybe not a classic in the world's eyes, I loved "The Shack". The only book I've read that brought me to tears was not a classic. It's a book by Karen Harper titled "Wings of Morning".
 
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I was one of those weird kids who actually liked "The Scarlet Letter" when I had to read it in high school. My favorite of the books I read for high school though was Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge."


I also liked the Agatha Christie novels - but only the Hercule Poirot ones.
anything by Edgar Allen Poe
To Kill a Mockingbird
 
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George orwell's 1984. manly because it is coming true.
 
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Gone With The Wind
Pride and Prejudice
Anna Karenina

None of these were required reading, oddly enough. Of the required readings, I enjoyed The Red Badge of Courage and The Scarlet Letter.
 
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Conrad Richter has a trilogy of books:
The Trees
The Fields
The Town

And Mildred Walker has this book:
Winter Wheat
 
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twill

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I did enjoy a lot of Jack London's stuff, including "The Sea Wolf". Albert Payson Terhune's "Lad" stories are some of my all time favorites, though.
 
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Hmm, I don't think we ever had any mandatory classics. It was more along the lines of "read a book you want to read".
I don't remember when I read the various books anyway, so this is just a "some of the classics I have read and enjoyed"- list :p

That being said (How old must it be to be a classic by the way?):

The Hobbit , Lord of the rings , Silmarillion
the Narnia books
Les Miserables
Never ending story
Oliver Twist
The count of Monte Christo
Treasure Island
Rebecca
The secret garden
The diary of Anne Frank
The history of beastiality (Triology by Jens Bjørneboe)
The hitchikers guide to the galaxy
Some stories by EA Poe (I love The Raven)
 
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Anything by novelists Conrad Richter and Mildred Walker are good.
 
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maryannar said:
My favorite classic was "Light in August" by Wm Faulkner. One of his chapters is one sentence long: "My mother is a fish".
Though I'm joking about my liking the book, I am telling the truth about the chapter containing only one sentence.
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That was As I Lay Dying, which I really enjoyed.

Just thought of another fav. Probably the only book I read more than once in grade school, Hatchet by Gary Paulson, freaking awesome.
 
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wwjd_kilden said:
Hmm, I don't think we ever had any mandatory classics. It was more along the lines of "read a book you want to read".
I don't remember when I read the various books anyway, so this is just a "some of the classics I have read and enjoyed"- list :p

That being said (How old must it be to be a classic by the way?):

The Hobbit , Lord of the rings , Silmarillion
the Narnia books
Les Miserables
Never ending story
Oliver Twist
The count of Monte Christo
Treasure Island
Rebecca
The secret garden
The diary of Anne Frank
The history of beastiality (Triology by Jens Bjørneboe)
The hitchikers guide to the galaxy
Some stories by EA Poe (I love The Raven)
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A classic doesn't have to be of a certain age, really. I was extremely fond of the Inkheart series, and because it's style is so much like Narnia and the rest, and it's relatively well known, I would even consider that a "classic". And Hitchhiker's is hysterical stuff.
 
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