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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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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
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
Favorite:
Favorite huh? I enjoyed Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
Least Favorite- Rebecca by Daphne DuMurier
Whoa, Sheri, congrats!
Favorite: "The Age of Innocence", Edith Wharton
Least Fav: Anything by Charles Dickens
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
Jenn
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"?
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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