Any Classic Book Readers Around?
By KL Boni
@milkdtea (39)
November 24, 2017 9:59am CST
Young Adult (YA) books are stacking up in the threshold of bookstores lately. They are either marked as the "Best Sellers" or "Must Reads."
These books feature excellent story plots and immense reading experience to extend to its readers. But then, what some readers miss are the classic books that quietly sit on bookshelves in the Classics section.
I miss the mind-cracking and vocabulary enriching works of Shakespeare. I miss hearing "Steinbeck" now that I'm way too long gone from the corners of my high school classrooms. I miss reading the works of London and Poe while tolerating the chills that they bestow to me.
Almost any kind of book genre is a such a priceless treasure but the contributions of the classics were unequivocally unforgettable.
What are your favorite class books? Who are your favorite authors?
Thou shalt keep reading and reading and reading books :)
A wonderful day to everyone!
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8 responses
@Daelii (5619)
• United States
25 Nov 17
@milkdtea The Pickwick Papers! Even if I pretty much failed my college comp class because my professor was a D****! It was my first C and felt like a complete failure to my honor studies classes!
I love Charles Dickens, but he was an awful speller and some of his things were clearly wrote different at the time. So when I did a paper on it and was quoting him from a book from the time period, I got marked off on points for not using the right spelling.
However, the professor was clear to say, no form of editing even to fix spelling or grammar use can ever be done to a quote when used.
Not to mention, I had used the authors own notes/published pieces concerning his works.. and the professor said the author didn't know what he wrote and it was for the professor to decide the meaning behind the authors books.
... it only gave me a stronger love to read and enjoy the classics. :)
@Firestorm0122 (735)
• United States
30 Nov 17
I absolutely love War and Peace, though sad thing is, it's taking me forever to finish it! The Great Gatsby is another book I came to admire. There are so many authors I admire, but most of them write fantasy.
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@WendySpickerman (983)
• United States
24 Nov 17
Here are a few in my collection: Ernest Hemingway "The Old Man and The Sea", Jane Austen "Northanger Abbey", " Persuasion","Pride and Prejudice", " Beatrix Potter "The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher", Shakespear "Hamlet", "Julius Caesar". I have "Brian's Song", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "Charlotte's Web", "Little Women". I also keep books by James Patterson, Tom Clancy. Some of my personal favorites not so classic Sting "Broken Music", Donald Spoto "Joan", Paul Burrell's " A Royal Duty", Christopher Andersen, "Sweet Caroline", and Ronald Kessler, 'In the President's Secret Service".
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@milkdtea (39)
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25 Nov 17
Wow, I'm definitely checking some of the books that you mentioned! :)
By the way, you mentioned Tom Clancy and James Patterson. I haven't read any of their works because I always have a hard time choosing in bookstores because the shelves are filled with their names. I enjoyed John Grishams books. Do you read his works? How different is Tom Clany or Patterson from Grisham or any other crime-thriller authors that I may know of
@WendySpickerman (983)
• United States
26 Nov 17
In all fairness, I only have one John Grisham book "The Last Juror" so I really couldn't give a comfortable assessment of his work verse Clancy or Patterson until I read more of his.
@BarBaraPrz (47274)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
24 Nov 17
I recently read Sons and Lovers by D.H Lawrence.
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