read all the classics

I just finished this book. I read bits and peices of it while in high school(a long time ago), and always intended to read the whole book in its entirety and this time, I did! After I originally set the goal, I had to wait to finish my graduate studies for the spring and summer semesters, but I did it- And I LOVED IT!!! I couldn’t put the book down for the last hundred or so pages and sat up until 3 in the morning to finish it. Such a good book!! No wonder it’s a classic!! I wish Emily Bronte had lived long enough to write another book after this one. She acurately describes the people and places in such thorough detail that you feel that you are there with the characters experiencing what they are going through and wondering what will happen next!! Amazing! Anyways, I guess the next book in my list will be something by Jane Austen.
So, yeah, i highly recommend this book!

I always think about all the classic novels I want to read because there referenced in almost all literary works. I’m starting as soon as I can get to a library.

i’ve always been an avid reader so i’ve read them all at least twice and most of them dozens of times more than that. It gives you a different view on life and human beings because you witness them as i believe they were intended to be. Men respected women and vice versa. I honestly carry alot of those values with me in my adult life. Plus it takes you to another world and elicits pretty much every emotion there is from you. theres a website that can help you because its a book club and they send you one beautifully bound classic per month. its www.eastonpressbooks.com- check it out…

I’ve also read, The Old Man and the Sea, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry, Les Miserables, Jonathon Livingston Seagull, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly, Where the Red Fern Grows, A Tale of Two Cities, The Constitution of the United States, and the Decleration of Independence.

Of what I consider kind of “classic” I’ve read Farenheit 451, Animal Farm, O’ Pioneers, The Catcher in the Rye, The Pearl, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Pursuit of Happyness, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Color Purple, The Diary of A Young Girl, Little Women, The Secret Life of Bees, The Bluest Eye, The Things They Carried, Walden, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Illiad, The Odyssey, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, Call of the Wild, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Chosen, 1984, and Pride and Prejudice. I have yet to read Don Quixote, My Antonia, The Awakening, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Great Expectations, The Kite Runner, Left to Tell, The Joy Luck Club, I know why the caged bird sings, Hiroshima, Catch-22, Through The Looking Glass, Gone With the Wind, Ivanhoe, etc. etc….
Wish me luck :)

The first thing I did was look at the book “1001 Books to Read Before you Die” but it was kind of lame (and I’m too ADD to give it time to improve). So I went to this section of Barnes and Noble and they had a list.

So the first one I bought (I’m really not going to buy all of them, I’m a big library person but I’m visiting a place I don’t have a library card to) was “The Idiot”....which seemed funny at the time.

I want to read all the classics. I need to find a master list.

1.) A Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
2.) The Jungle
3.) Great Expectations
4.) The Pearl
5.) Pride and Prejudice
6.) Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

i reading Anna Karenina for the second time. The first time i read it was for school and we only had to read parts of the book so now im reading the whole thing.

Is this a classic? Well, I’m reading it now anyway. It’s good. I really like the writing style—then again, I am one for the dark and gritty themes.