Classics Book Club discussion

I myself am just starting on the classics. I'm currently reading Great Expectations, and really enjoying it.

Which ones have you read, or are you just starting as well?

I have only read a modern classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Oh, I also read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

Catamorandi wrote: "I have only read a modern classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Oh, I also read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass."

Cool, I'm looking forward to reading those. I have read one modern classic as well, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

I didn't realize that was a modern classic. I have read The Bell Jar also.

Catamorandi wrote: "I didn't realize that was a modern classic. I have read The Bell Jar also."

Cool. :) So, what classics are you most looking forward to reading?

I am going to start with The Count of Monte Cristo and Jane Eyre, and then go from there.

Sounds like a good way to start. I'm looking forward to those books as well.

What classics are on your agenda right now?

Catamorandi wrote: "What classics are on your agenda right now?"

Well, I should be finishing up Great Expectations withing the next week or so, so I'll probably move on to Anna Karenina or Pride and Prejudice, though I'm not sure. There are several that I really want to read.

There are a lot of them I want to read as well.

I read quite a few in high school, but I would probably need to re-read quite a few :)

Leslie wrote: "I read quite a few in high school, but I would probably need to re-read quite a few :)"

Cool :D

I have a Classics shelf, under my books, so I would recommend if you would like to know, just click on it and it is will show you what I have read and not read.

Mainly a handful of Shakespeare, but not too many. But I am hopeful to get into them and read a good bunch of them in the next year.

Cool, I'll have to check it out.

I'm hoping for the same thing. :)

Hello everybody, I just joined the group and I'm hoping I can keep up. The classics are usually door-stoppers! But I love them. I've read a spattering of Dickens, Austen, Thackery, Richardson, Flaubert... You know, the ones you have to read for the English lit courses... I really love Dickens and have a goal of reading all of his books to my kids (but they're not old enough yet). Okay, so here's the bomb... I've wanted to read Middlemarch for the longest time! Any takers??

Hey Rachel & welcome!

Sounds like you are the rest of us, wanting to read more of the classic genre. May I suggest that you add Middlemarch to the Suggestion Topic made by Alyssa?

Have fun reading!

:)

Welcome to the group Rachel!
I can promise you that we will be reading plenty of Dickens here. And I'll put Middlemarch onto the voting list for April!

Thanks for joining!

Great to be here. I already have a copy of Anna Karenina so I'll see how far I can get. I haven't read it before. :) Thanks for adding Middlemarch to the voting list.

Sounds good. :)
No problem! Book suggestions are really helpful.

Welcome! Thanks for joining!
Well, I can put those books on the voting list too, maybe we'll read one next month! :)
Go for it! I myself will be starting it hopefully in a day or two.

I'm new to this group!

I've only recently discovered the greatness of classics, thanks to my AP English teacher, so I have a lot of reading ahead of me. Fine by me!

I'm currently reading Jane Austen novels, just finished Pride and Prejudice, now I'm starting Persuasion.

Jane Eyre was fantastic!
My favorite classic so far was The Picture of Dorian Gray. Very intense.

I've read: Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, The Phantom of the Opera, The Count of Monte Crisco, The Lord of the Flies, Dracula, Little Women, The Yearling, Anne Frank, Anne of Green Gables, and I'm pretty sure theres more.

Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Outsiders.

@Emma: Wow! I think you've read more than the rest of us!
Or most of the rest of us, that is. Awesome!
What have been your favorites so far?

Hmm....I loved Jane Austen's works. OH, and Phantom of the Opera and Dracula! Lord of the Flies was really good, Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern grows made me cry. Little Women was great too!

Hi Carmie,
Be sure to check out the Challenges... looks like you might have a great start!

I've been reading the classics in school and on my own for awhile. I've read a lot of Dickens: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities. I've read Wuthering Heights, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series, On the Road, Catcher in the Rye, Grapes of Wrath, Frankenstein, Beowulf, Romeo and Juliet, The Picture of Dorian Grey... Oh my gosh, I've read a lot of classics! LOL I can't remember them all.

Haha, that's great!

I loved To Kill A Mockingbird. The movie with Gregory Peck is one of the best interpretations of a book to a script. I am currently reading Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1 and The Scarlet Pimpernel. I highly recommend these to read and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Katie wrote: "I loved To Kill A Mockingbird. The movie with Gregory Peck is one of the best interpretations of a book to a script. I am currently reading Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1 and The Scarlet Pimpernel. I hi..."

i also loved to kill a mockingbird as well. it is one of my fav books. currently reading the unabridged version of the count of monte cristo cuz i heard a lot of good stuff about it. so far its pretty sweet and i have really hig hopes

Wren wrote: "Hmm....I loved Jane Austen's works. OH, and Phantom of the Opera and Dracula! Lord of the Flies was really good, Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern grows made me cry. Little Women was great too!"

i couldn't really get into Little women. i felt that aside from its lenght it could very well be a childrens book. it seemed very simplistic to me.

Manu wrote: "Hey guys, I just joined :)...Aside from the stuff I have been reading in AP Eng the past two years I haven't really read many classics but I'm trying to change that this year..some that I hope to r..."

didnt really get into anna karenina cuz i was reading it online and it just felt complicated. might give it another shot if i get a hard copy of the book.

Catamorandi wrote: "I am going to start with The Count of Monte Cristo and Jane Eyre, and then go from there."

have u started reading the count of monte cristo? make sure to read the unabridged cuz the abridged just feels rushed

Kehinde wrote: "didnt really get into anna karenina cuz i was reading it online and it just felt complicated. might give it another shot if i get a hard copy of the book.

Here, here - i read it, but it took like forever as it kept going on and on and on....unfortunately not one of my favs

VWrulesChick wrote: "Kehinde wrote: "didnt really get into anna karenina cuz i was reading it online and it just felt complicated. might give it another shot if i get a hard copy of the book.

Here, here - i read it..."

i know right and it was so shocking for me as a lot of peoplehave splendid things to say about the book. i was so scared i was dimwit when i realised how much i wasnt liking the book.

I LOVE Anna Karenina, but part of that is because I love history so much. I really enjoy Tolstoy for that reason, he always includes so much history. War and Peace took some dedication, but it was such an amazing story. There's a lot of history in it as well.

Anna Karenina, East of Eden, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, Silas Mariner, Wuthering Heights (ages ago), 1984, Jane Eyre, Altas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Moby Dick, Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye, Anthem, Count of Monte Cristo,and more I'll think of later

Hi I'm new to the group :)
I just finished Anna Karenina.
I've also read Great Expectations, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, The Portrait of Dorian Gray and Tale of Two Cities.
My next choice is Moby Dick. I've been wanting to read that for ages.

Hi everyone. I just joined.

I love classics and I've read quite a few of them...around 62 (I have a classics shelf on goodreads so I can keep up with how many I've read). My favorites are The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar, The Fountainhead, The Brothers Karamazov, and Franny and Zooey.

I'm currently reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and I have Persuasion on hold at the library.

I've read Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, A Tale of Two Cities.
I'm hoping to read The Picture of Dorian Gray next month.

I'm a Classic Lover. I have a whole shelf shelfed with classics. I've read so many. Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Little Women, Good Wives, An Old-Fashioned Girl, the whole Emily of New Moon Series & Anne of Green Gables Series, Jane Eyre, Phantom of the Opera and oh! so so many that I can't keep count of.

I started reading the classics as a kid. My first was The Secret Garden and Little Women. I've gone on to read Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, etc. My favorite classic would definitely be Jane Austen's Emma. I'm currently reading one of the more recent ones, Catch-22. After this one, I might go for The Godfather or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Kehinde wrote: "Manu wrote: "Hey guys, I just joined :)...Aside from the stuff I have been reading in AP Eng the past two years I haven't really read many classics but I'm trying to change that this year..some tha..."

It was awful reading the hard copy, I can imagine trying to read it from a computer. I love the classics, but Anna Karenina was different from what I expected. They try to make it seem like it's a book that empowers women because Anna is strong-willed and independent, but really, she's just a (warning: potential spoiler ahead) cheater and a weakling. IMO.

There are a few I've read. The best are the Lord of the Rings, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Three Musketeers. I also read A Christmas Carol, Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island and more that I just can't think of off the top of my head. I am currently reading the Count of Monte Cristo and I will read Hamlet next (which I guess is this months book as well as A Tale of Two Cities).

Hi, I recently joined the group a few months back and have started reading the classics. The classics that I have read so far is : Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, Dracula, adam bede, sister carrie, the return of the native and currently the canterbury tales. I enjoyed reading the classics some books I like more than other such as little women, dracular and sister carrie. Hope is participate more with this group

I'm just starting Jane Eyre, since I'm going to see the movie next weekend.
Excited :)

I haven't read as many classics as I should, and I have to admit to favouring British classics from the Victorian era:-)

Uhmm, on the top of my head , I've read:
Jane Eyre
Wuthering heights
Great expectations
Persuasion
Sense and sensibility
Pride and prejudice
Mansfield park
Northanger abbey
Emma
Little Women
Good wives
Little men
Jo's boys
The picture of Dorian Gray
Heidi...

I'm reading Bleak House by Charles Dickens while reading other stuff.
I saw the BBC production and just loved it.