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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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My opinion is based on my having read it in tenth grade. Didn't care for it, but I've never seen it performed.
Jenn
Jenn
We have a "Shakespeare in the Park" production here every year. While I have always appreciated Shakespeare's plays, when I was in college, I always enjoyed his sonnnets a little more. However, once I saw one of them performed, I was a total convert. It's amazing, those plays were meant to be seen, rather than read.
ninipanini
Best - Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, East of Eden
Worst - Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
At the very least they should be read out loud.
Julie
With my memory how do you all expect me to remember my least & most favorite. LOL. Besides, I believe I've been reading longer than many of you have lived!!! LOL again!
I really liked "To Kill a Mockingbird" & East of Eden. I also liked the Grapes of Wrath.
Really disliked The Great Gatsby....don't care for Scott Fitzgerald. I detested "Crime & Punishment" by Dostoyevsky. Talk about rambling (the author, that is!)! Another awful book was My Sister Carrie (is that right?) by Theodore Drieser. dee
Great question, sueroon!
Favorite: Novel: CATCHER IN THE RYE. Play: Eugene O'Neill's MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA
Hated: SILAS MARNER.
Hate - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
I agree with you about Shakespeare completely! They are PLAYS, they are meant to be heard & seen, not read. I wish more teachers would remember that. I had a Sr.English teacher who did when we read "Hamlet". She first brought in a made for schools recording (which we had a little trouble following, since it was "edited" for schools) It was a big improvement. Then she brought in a recording of Richard Burton doing it. Wow! I'd never really enjoyed Shakespeare until then.
Liz
Liz
I too hate Sister Carrie. I never even finished it.
As for Shakespeare. My favorite production is Franco Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet w/Olivia De Haviland. Awesome!
Worst Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet w/Leonardo DiCaprio. Awful!
ninipanini
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