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Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:38 pm

Classic you should read:-

A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Classic you shouldn't read:-

The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:41 pm

Classic you should read:

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Classic you shouldn't read:

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Don't Panic » Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:46 pm

Classic you should read:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Classic you shouldn't read:

Ulysses, James Joyce.
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:12 pm

Classic you should read:-

The War of the World by H.G. Wells.


Classic you shouldn't read:-

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne.
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Svartalf » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:12 pm

Classics you should read Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais; L'Assommoir, by Emile Zola

Classics to avoid : anything by Honoré de Balzac or Stendhal... I swear, I prefer Dickens to either of those
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Svartalf » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:18 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:Classic you should read:-

The War of the World by H.G. Wells.


Classic you shouldn't read:-

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne.
Funny, I would have inverted those

Classic you should read : The Man Who would Be King (and other stories) By Rudyard Kipling

Classic to read only if you need extra strong soporifics : Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Elessarina » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:26 pm

Should read:

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Shouldn't: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:27 pm

I'm readin Tess of the D'Urbevilles at the mo...
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Pappa » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:29 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm readin Tess of the D'Urbevilles at the mo...
Well don't! El said not to!
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:29 pm

Classic you should read:

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Classic you shouldn't read:

Last of the Mohicans - J Fenimore Cooper.
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:30 pm

Pappa wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm readin Tess of the D'Urbevilles at the mo...
Well don't! El said not to!
I am a bit scared of her, so I might well stop....
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:38 pm

Elessarina wrote:Should read:

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Shouldn't: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
I loved the Monte Cristo I had for lunch, and the book was good too.

However, anything by Thomas Hardy is insufferable.
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Mysturji » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:03 pm

Should: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by klr » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:04 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm readin Tess of the D'Urbevilles at the mo...
I read it at university. :read:

Oddly enough, this was in the first year of a Bachelor of Commerce. I don't think there's any room in a business degree for such luxuries as English literature any more. :levi:
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Re: Classics you should read, classics you shouldn't

Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:05 pm

Svartalf wrote:Classics you should read Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais; L'Assommoir, by Emile Zola

Classics to avoid : anything by Honoré de Balzac or Stendhal... I swear, I prefer Dickens to either of those
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