What Literary Classics Have You Read?

[Kiriyama]

Holes : I'd give it a 6/10

 

Romeo And Juliet : 8/10

 

MErchant of Venice : 7/10

 

Lord of The Rings series (all 6 books): 8/10

 

Brave New World : 8/10

 

 

 

not so sure if the last is a classic. Lord of The Rings is not a trilogy, it is 6 books, but is usually divided in 3 books. (Fellowship of The ring contains books 1 and 2, Two Towers, 3 and 4, Return of The King, 5 and 6)

[jokemaster]

11th grade

 

 

 

- Francome Outsider

 

 

 

- Hamlet

[Harrington]

I read constantly, but most of what I read are modern day fantasy and science fiction works. I generally get through about 2-3 books per month lol.

 

 

 

I tend to stay clear of best sellers and "classics". Although I was forced to read a few during my school days including;

 

 

 

The Railway Children

 

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

 

Lots of Shakespear (i guess that counts)

 

 

 

and various other stuff I've deliberately erased from memory lol

[PaperClipsYaaaar]

lol i agree being intelligent sucks we should all just erase stuff from our memories that are not cheap mainstream macdonalds-fueled commercial products because who needs writers anyway we have xbox

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I read constantly, but most of what I read are modern day fantasy and science fiction works. I generally get through about 2-3 books per month lol.

 

 

 

I tend to stay clear of best sellers and "classics". Although I was forced to read a few during my school days including;

 

 

 

The Railway Children

 

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

 

Lots of Shakespear (i guess that counts)

 

 

 

and various other stuff I've deliberately erased from memory lol

[Barihawk]

I beat you all.

 

 

 

I read Romance of the Three Kingoms in all it's 6000 page entirety and wrote a 32 page essay on it. Hah!

 

 

 

Like a dissertation or something?

 

 

 

Kind of. More like a really evil English teacher, and it was like half our grade for the class.

[Unoalexi]

Well, I haven't read much in school, but here's my list-

 

 

 

Below 9th grade(can't remember much)

 

Holes 8/10

 

Island of the Blue Dolphins 6/10

 

By the Great Horn Spoon! 5/10

 

 

 

9th Grade-

 

To Kill a Mockingbird 3/10 (So boring..)

 

Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Anotilldato(Sp?) 7/10

 

The Open Window(Short story) 7/10

 

 

 

Books I've read on my own-

 

The Giver-9/10

 

Animal Farm-10/10

 

1984-10/10

 

The Lords of The Rings+The Hobbit 10/10

 

The Plague Dogs 9/10

 

Watership Down 8/10

 

The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass 11/10

 

Ivanhoe 6/10

 

Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hide 7/10

 

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 7/10

 

Call of the Wild 10/10

 

Flowers for Algernon 10/10

 

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 7/10

 

Night(by Ellie Wiesel) 9/10

 

A Tale of Two Cities 7/10

 

Catcher in the Rye 6/10

 

Fahrenheit 411 8/10

[llamster]

How are Holes and The Giver classics?

 

 

 

4th Grade

 

-Island of the Blue Dolphins

 

-The Secret Garden

 

 

 

5th Grade

 

-Across Five Aprils

 

-LOTR

 

-Chronicles of Narnia (all seven)

 

-White Fang

 

-The Devil's Arithmetic

 

 

 

6th Grade

 

-Can't remember anything from that year (no, that isn't a book title).

 

 

 

7th Grade (so far)

 

-The Red Badge of Courage

 

-I am the Cheese

 

-LOTR (again)

[megakiller32]

Ive read loadsa shakespeare, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, To kill a mockingbird and treasure island, those are the ones off the top of my head.

[Unoalexi]

How are Holes and The Giver classics?

 

 

 

 

 

 

They have like Newbery(sp?) awards and stuff, and English teachers make you read them..

[harryp0tt3rules]

We read Jane Eyre as freshman, worst book ever

[the_drunk_dude]

Count of Monte Cristo 10/10

 

The Old Man and the Sea 9/10

 

To Kill a Mocking Bird 3/10

 

Tale of Two Cities 4/10

 

The Illiad 7/10

 

The Odyssey 6/10

 

Julius Caesar 8/10

 

Hamlet 6/10

 

Romeo and Juliet 5/10

 

The Comedy of Errors 8/10

 

The Tempest 9/10

 

Othello 7/10

 

Oliver Twist 7/10

 

Crime and Punishment 9/10

 

Bridge to Terrabethia 8/10

 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 7/10

 

1984 8/10

 

Fahrenheit 451 10/10

 

The Three Musketeers 8/10

 

The Art of War 6/10

 

A Midsummer Nights Dream 4/10

 

The Great Gatspy 7/10

 

The Shipping News 6/10

 

Catcher in the Rye 4/10

 

Killer Angels 8/10

 

Catch-22 10/10

 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 10/10

 

 

 

Bored, too lazy to finish list. For the record, you guys need to read better books not titled anything close to Harry Potter.

[tryto]

hmm..let me see..

 

 

 

macbeth

 

Great expectations

 

Oliver Twist

 

Gulliver's Travels-Swift

 

1984, Animal Farm, Coming Up For Air, Keep The Aphidistra Flying(his best IMO)-Orwell

 

Frankenstein

 

Dracula

 

The Iliad

 

The Odyssey

 

The Divine Comedy(Inferno, paradiso, other one(about limbo))-Dante

 

The Sillmarrillion, Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit-Tolkien

 

Romeo and Juliet

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Dr jekyll and Mr Hyde-Carrol

 

Lord of The Flies-Golding

 

The Great Gatsby

 

The Catcher in The Rye

 

 

 

Thats off teh top of my head, ive read tons more...

 

 

 

More,

 

Moby [bleep],

 

SlaughterHouse-5-Kurt Vandergut

 

Treasure Island

 

White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Call of the Wild-Jack London

 

Brave New World(definitly a classic!)

 

Chronicles of Narnia

 

Othello

 

The old Man and The Sea

 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

 

The Shining

 

The War of The Worlds

 

The Time Machine

 

The Prince(Machiavelli)

[Kashi]

My school didn't believe in reading, but I read alot of these books for fun. A few other things I'd

 

put on your list:

 

 

 

Alice in Wonderland -- Pretty fantastic book, if you ask me.

 

also Through The Looking Glass -- I've read these two about a dozen times.

 

 

 

Dante's Inferno -- Although I haven't read the rest of the Divine Comedy.

 

 

 

Robinson Crusoe -- Or was this already on there? It wasn't so great anyway ...

 

 

 

Animal Farm -- Short,but good.

 

 

 

The Time Machine -- And also basically H.G. Wells's entire works.

 

 

 

 

 

Although I didn't read the thread, only the opening post, someone probably already

 

mentioned these.