Kids/Teens Book Club discussion

Hello so I just finished the classic book 'of mice and men' by John Steinbeck, and I loved it.
Was I the only one who thought it was amazingly well written?
Does anyone else have any recommendations for more classics?
Thanks
Louis x

Um... I'm reading the Picture of Dorian Gray. It's amazing. You should read it.

Also, Lord of the Flies, Treasure Island and Animal Farm are all very good.

The Wind in the Willows

The Swiss Family Robinson.

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'Of Mice and Men' was a really good book.
Earlier this year I read 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens and I thought it was amazing.
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ScienceReader wrote: "'Of Mice and Men' was a really good book.
Earlier this year I read 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens and I thought it was amazing.
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A Tale of Two Cities was fantastic!


And as for other books I really liked Jane Eyre

I have A Tale of Two Cities in English this year. Animal Farm too.

Hmm. Pride and Prejudice, for sure. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Scarlet Pimpernel

Oh, a lot of people don't like The Scarlet Letter but I thought it was really pretty good after you get used to his writing.

My favorite classics - Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Little Women, Jany Eyre, To Kill A Mockingbird and Gone With The Wind

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre(especially Jane Eyre) Anne of Green Gables, The Grapes of Wrath was pretty good.
I'm reading Dickens right now and Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities, in my opinion, are convoluted but worthwhile.
(Edit) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes!

In the past two weeks I've been on a classic binge never seen by the likes of me so hope that helps :)

I'm not into classics that much, but I loved To Kill a Mockingbird!! Awesome book!!

The Great Gatsby, one of my favourite books! And The Hobbit is another great one as well, if you're into adventure. :)

Don't know if it's a classic but was written in the 19th century (i think!) but I love The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. I don't really like the main character but the storyline is really good and I love Robin (guy).

I don't know if it is in fact a classic, Dune but for my money the best Sci Fi young adult book ever.

Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, The Secret Garden, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Sherlock Holmes books, Emma, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Outsiders. Just to name a few :)

I really liked Of Mice and Men too! One of my all time favorite classic book is The Catcher in the Rye.
I know that this isn't a book but "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov is a really amazing short story.

This year I read for the first time: Catcher in the Rye, A Little Princess and The Secret Garden and also Pride and Prejudice. My two all-time faves are Jane Eyre and To Kill A Mockingbird. Also really great are Madame Bovary and The Scarlet Letter.

Anything by Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice is my personal favorite. Austen manages to portray characters and their relationships very realistically and you can't help but to fall in love with them.

I loved The Moon is Down, which is also by John Steinbeck

The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Anything Charles Dickens, The Chronicles of Narnia, Watership Down, The Call of the Wild, Treasure Island.

Ethan wrote: "Um... I'm reading the Picture of Dorian Gray. It's amazing. You should read it.

Also, Lord of the Flies, Treasure Island and Animal Farm are all very good."

Animal Farm & 1984, very very brilliant.

So many great classics perhaps the most totally spell binding and written with extreme genius, Tolstoy's War and Peace

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë are both amazing books

Yes, they are too.

Dune is NOT a young adult novel. Albeit it is still quite a good book.

I didn't enjoy Steinbech's stories at all. I first encountered him when I was made to read "The Pearl" and I found that story terrible. I just could never get into him.

However, I did like "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexander Dumas. I also quite enjoyed some original sci-fi stuff like "Time Machine" by HG Wells. I agree with the recommendation of Sherlock Holmes, one of my all time favorites and I just don't think you can go wrong with that.

LOTR!!!!!!!!!!!! I also really enjoyed Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird and Animal Farm. Apologies to Austen fans, but Pride and Prejudice bored me to death.

I found the Count of Monte Cristo dull and juvenile.

Why isn't Dune young adult? The heroes journey told as well as anywhere in literature.

Animal Farm, Brave New World - truly, works of genius.

Because Frank Herbert wasn't writing it for kids. Neither were a lot of other classic authors.

I don't even think young-adult existed as a genre back then. It's a very new thing.

I just finished Jane Eyre and it was AMAZING!! I recommend it, but also read it keeping the time period in mind. I know someone who thought (view spoiler)[that Mr Rochester shouldn't have had his wife locked in the third floor. That it was weird, creepy and made him not so good of a person. I personally disagree. If you consider how Bertha would have been treated in the insane asylums of the time, it was more loving for him to do what he did. If it were set in the modern day that would be different. I feel there is also stalk in the fact that he tried to save her in the fire. He could have gotten the servants out but let her to die, but he didn't. That man has character. (hide spoiler)]. I'm just saying that it's amazing.
I also love Little Women, Little Men and Jo's Boys though you need to read them all and in order. I greatly enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird. I'm not sure if LOTR and Narnia count as classics, or modern classics or what they are exactly but they are amazing. I liked the one Anne of Green Gables movies better then the book, but I still like the book too.
I liked Animal Farm, though I can see how it might not be for everyone. I'd at least suggest giving it a chance.
Personally I do not like or recommend Pride and Prejudice. It lacked all the wonderful beauty of Jane Eyre, and I was only able to take away a dislike of the characters from the whole thing.

Sarah wrote: "Personally I do not like or recommend Pride and Prejudice. It lacked all the wonderful beauty of Jane Eyre, and I was only able to take away a dislike of the characters from the whole thing."

i have to read a little bit more classics. i loved LOTR ( who didnt?) and Hobbit, Sherlock Holmes, 80 Days all round the world by Verne and Wizard of earth sea. :)))

Classics are amazing:)

Animal Farm!!! I'm not really much for classics but this one was amazing!!!

Some of my favourites:

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

I really loved Fahrenheit 451 and Watership Down. I'm also reading Tales of a Wayside Inn currently. It isn't really a classic, but it's from the 19th century, and it doesn't have much of a plot so far. It's entirely in verse and a group of friends are telling each other stories. I wouldn't recommend it if you don't like poetry though.

I think The adventures of Tom Sawyer is good for classics

Tom Sawer
Treasure Island
Around the world in 80 Days
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Pride and prejudice
Emma
Withering heights
A tale of two cities
The secret garden