What's Your Favorite Book?

Question

I'm into classics at the moment. In desperate need of reading material.

Answer 1

My favorite classics are
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
pride and prejudice by Jane Austen
persuasion by Jane Austen
Evelina by Frances Burney
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

You might also try the short stories of Kate Chopin or Dorothy Parker.

Answer 2

It's hard to pick just one but I really recommend The Chosen by Chaim Potok as a book whick could appeal to a wide audience, but which has a wisdom to it which all can also appreciate. Of Mice and Men is also an amazing but terribly sad book. And don't forget Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Anything by Haruki Murakami ... There are so many ... I could go on :)

For more classics: Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky. The Old Man & the Sea by Hemingway. Also, The Handmaid's Tale is newer, but will probably be considered a classic.

(I don't understand why I would get a negative vote when I'm just suggesting my favorites? That's cool though.)

Answer 3

If you're into classics, try Lord of the Rings, which is basically the original fantasy series. Read that, and you'll think most of the other fantasys out there bite from Tolkien. Which they probably do.

Also, try reading the entire collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries. They're available all in one book from Barnes and Noble. Or try Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the first being Casino royale.

If you want something to keep you reading for the rest of your life, besides the 1100 page Holmes book, you can try War and Peace.

Answer 4

By classics, is there any chance that you mean truly classical literature (as in Greek and Roman)? If so, you might be interested in the collected essays of Montaigne. Though he was born in 1533, his father arranged it so that he heard nothing but Latin spoken until he was about ten years old. Therefore, it's quite possible he was the last person on earth for whom Latin was his native tongue. That helps to explain why when he began to write his essays, he regularly made classical allusions and quoted Latin and Greek freely. He is considered to have invented, if you will, the modern informal essay. He was always trying to test (the original meaning of essay) himself to see what he knew about everything from cannibals to the raising of children. (In fact, his personal motto as translated from the French means, "What do I know?") An excellent introduction is a selection of the most famous essays translated by John M. Cohen and published by Penguin.

I was briefly exposed to Montaigne in college, but I really didn't get into him until my early 30's. So if you are young, give it time. Maybe I've planted a seed, as someone did for me many years ago.

Answer 5

you mention that you are into classics so that probably means nineteenth century english literature which of course means
george eliot and charles dickens
for example the mill on the floss and a tale of two cities

catcher in the rye is not the same kind of literary masterpiece but it is a prominent novel within american literature and really likeable

anyone who did not read to kill a mockingbird in junior high school need not bother with its watered down juvenile attempt at writing

go to the library to pick up some books and have fun reading

Answer 6

read The Count of Monte Cristo- It's really long, but it's really good- to tell you the truth, I am still only 700 pages into it- extremely cool classic though. Also the Three Musketeers, The Time Machine, and Dracula.

Answer 7

Go, Dog Go- PD Eastman... but seriously Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafasi. It is about a group of women who gather secretly to read banned Western literature classics. Maybe the break from strictly classics will be good for you. And I just know you are going to sneak & check out Go, Dog Go on line. I don't blame you.

Bert you have no reason to be upset ,they went thumbs down on Go, Dog Go. Why I don't understand (weep)

Answer 8

Three American classics
The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway
Great Gatsby, by Fitzgerald
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

If you are young, hurry up and read The Catcher in the Rye because you probably won't want to after your 30.

Answer 9

One Hundred Years of Solitude is amazing. It may not exactly be a Classic, but it won the Nobel Prize.

Answer 10

One of my favorite classics is East of Eden. I also love To Kill a Mockingbird. My online book club is reading Run, Rabbit this month. Feel free to join us!