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10-23-2009, 05:45 PM
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I could never finish Wuthering Heights. My brother gave me books every year for my b-day, and that was in my age 13 stack. I kept it well into my 2nd marriage before I finally decided if I didn't read it by now, I wasn't going to. I also received that same year "James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Obviously, my brother thought I was much brighter than I was, as that one never got read either.
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10-23-2009, 06:36 PM
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and the Complete Sherlock Holmes are 2 which come to my mind now. Will have to think more.
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10-23-2009, 07:34 PM
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English major in college.  I couldn't even possibly begin to tell you what I've read. My mother once asked me, "Do you think you could read a book that wasn't written by someone who died 100 years ago?" 
Some of my favorites ... The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James. Shoot, I'm brain dead right now and cannot seem to think of anything else. It's been a long day. 
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10-23-2009, 11:59 PM
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Originally Posted by jjmix7
Some of Dickens books are pretty good (if you don't mind feeling depressed for a week or two after)
I actually liked reading the Canterbury Tales years and years ago. I even bought a kid's version for my kids. When I read it to them, it made me wonder why I liked the original because it just wasn't as good as I remembered it. Grapes of Wrath was pretty good. Red Badge of Courage I didn't care for either, but I don't like stories about war.
I LOVE the original Alice In Wonderland.
I think I would like Shakespeare's stuff if I could just understand what they were saying.  |
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I loved Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass too.
I like some Shakespeare, but not all of it. I like the comedies, but honestly, most of them revolve around mistaken identity, and once you've read one, you've read most of them. I do love A Midsummer Night's Dream though.
I love Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Titus Andronicus - Titus because it's SO bad.
Hamlet is a whiny brat, and I hate that play.
Of the histories, I like Henry V and Richard III.
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10-24-2009, 12:01 AM
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Love Hugo, love Poe, can take or leave Hemingway. HATED Gone with the Wind.
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When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt and call me over!
Any time God closes one door, She always opens another, even though sometimes it's Hell in the hallway.
Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die. (Klingon proverb)
Don't point. You'll poke holes in the air and all the faeries will escape.
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10-24-2009, 12:03 AM
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I read Jane Eyre and liked it okay, but couldn't get into Wuthering Heights. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man put me to sleep.
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When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt and call me over!
Any time God closes one door, She always opens another, even though sometimes it's Hell in the hallway.
Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die. (Klingon proverb)
Don't point. You'll poke holes in the air and all the faeries will escape.
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10-24-2009, 08:00 AM
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, ohh Im sure there's a few more I can not even think right now lol waiting on my cup of joe. Oh I have tried time and time again to read Anna Karenina for some reason I can not get into it as much as I would like.
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10-24-2009, 08:27 AM
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I read all the Cronicle of Narnia Books, all of the Little House Books, Little Women, the whole All of a Kind Family series (not sure if anyone will know what that is), Of Mice and Men(was that a short story?), I read so many books when I was younger, I can't really remember them all. I read Catcher in the Rye, and I think it was the dumbest book I ever read. Sorry to all of you who loved it. I know there are a lot of great classics I have probably not read, and hope to get to most of them someday.
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10-26-2009, 03:03 PM
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I also studied English Lit, so I have read a lot of classics, I studied in England so we read all shakespear, macbeth, romeo and juliet, othello, king lear. I love, love, love Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility,I loved all the Bronte sisters works, and all Jane Austen.
I studied Huckelberry Finn and never really liked it.
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