Classics

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Fri, 03-11-2005 - 12:20pm

Hi All,

Thanks you so much for making me feel better about "Mansfield Park". Let's post our most and least favorite classic!!!!

Love - "East of Eden" - Steinbeck
Hate - "Mansfield Park" - Austen

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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: sueroon
Fri, 03-11-2005 - 12:33pm

This is fun!

Favorite classic- "Anna Karenina"- I first read this in high school then again in college for my Russian Studies major. It is my favorite book of all time!

Least favorite- Without a doubt it would be "Moby Dick". UGH!!! Close second would be "Grapes of Wrath."

Sheri

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Registered: 03-31-2003
In reply to: sueroon
Fri, 03-11-2005 - 1:48pm

I have so many favorite classics, it's hard to pick one.

As an English major I read a lot of classics & literature in college but it's different reading those with a good professor, I notice and think about things that I normally would have missed.

Loved it: David Copperfield off the top of my head
Anna Karenina--I agree

My least favorite classic is non-fiction:
Hated: Walden Pond by Thoreau, everything I read by him, UGH!
Close second: I hated Portrait of An Artist as A Young Man by James Joyce and everyone I've talked to liked it.UGH again

ninipanini

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Registered: 05-22-2003
In reply to: sueroon
Fri, 03-11-2005 - 3:29pm

Favorite:

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Registered: 03-20-2003
In reply to: sueroon
Fri, 03-11-2005 - 4:13pm

Favorite huh? I enjoyed Mill on the Floss by George Elliot

Least Favorite- Rebecca by Daphne DuMurier


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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: sueroon
Fri, 03-11-2005 - 8:35pm

Whoa, Sheri, congrats!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: sueroon
Fri, 03-11-2005 - 8:38pm

Favorite: "The Age of Innocence", Edith Wharton


Least Fav: Anything by Charles Dickens


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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: sueroon
Fri, 03-11-2005 - 8:57pm

Teri,

No...I started Anna Karenina when Oprah announced it last summer, but I took three courses last summer and things just got too hectic. I'm only taking one course this summer, so maybe I'll give it another go!

My favourite classics...so far...Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

My least favourite classic...Julius Ceasar by Shakespeare.

Jenn

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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: sueroon
Sat, 03-12-2005 - 7:31am
Teri, shhh, don't tell anyone but I read it three times. LOL. I know, I know. But I was a Russian studies major in college so not only did I love the book but I came across it is several course, not to mention my senior orals. I hadn't even realized Oprah had selected it for her book club until they were done with the book but I would be curious to see what people thought of it.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: sueroon
Sat, 03-12-2005 - 11:21am

Sheri,


So three reads qualifies you big time to tell us if "Anna Karenia" lives up to it's reputation as "The Greatest Love Story of All Time"?

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Registered: 10-27-2004
In reply to: sueroon
Sat, 03-12-2005 - 2:20pm

Is your opinion of Julius Caesar based on reading it or seeing it? I didn't care for it much when I first read it, it was too political. But I have since seen a couple of brilliant productions and my appreciation has grown.

Julie

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