How many of the "Classics" have you read?

Wow, I don't even think I could list all of them. I read Narnia on my own as a child and am rereading it now since the movies are coming out. Others: Complete works of W.Shakespeare (yes, i know I'm crazy!) LOTR including The Hobbit Little Women Actually looking through the posts I think I have read all of the ones mentioned so far. I know I reread Watership Down as an adult but it was first read as a school book.

All my "classics" are on vynil. I still have the original copies. :) Electric Ladyland, Tommy,Topographic Oceans, LA woman,Aftermath,Between The Buttons,Ummagumma,Piper at The Gates Of Dawn,Harvest,Mad Dogs And Englishmen... Oh there's too many :)

Yea I remember those times at school!! I was NOT impressed with some of the stuff they gave us to read!! So.......... Being into "Action Books" as a kid, I used to take my "Camp on Blood Island" with me to school, and then, when they opened "Little Women" I used to put mine in the middle and continue to read my World War II Prisoner of War escape book!! Now of course, I understand how important reading the Classicals would have been, and my and my wife love the way that they are "Done" on the BBC TV At the moment we are well into "Pride and the Predjudice" EXCELLENT series!

I read Little Women,Jane Eyre,Catcher in the rye,atlas Shrugged,The Good Earth,Romeo and Juliet,Merchant of Venice,and Lord of the Rings. I ahve not read Narnia,I ahave read a book about CS lewis but I do want to read it.

I've read so many classics. Some of them are: Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, All the Narnia books, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights, Huck Finn, The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby (still one of my favorite books), Heart of Darkness, Oedipus Rex, The Canterbury Tales, A Room with a View, Brave New World. The list goes on and on. I love most of the classics. They are classic for a reason. Some can be dry at times, but I really think you can learn a lot by reading them.

NOt many but heard they re good i have seen the movies though

I read 'The Raven' and 'The Tell-Tale' heart on my own..I love all things horror and they were considered some of the first horror type literature..I even read McBeth again..when I was in high school, I kinda understood it, but now, I had a better concept of it, so I re-read it..

I've read most of those high school requisite ones (Cather in the Rye, Huck Finn, Romeo and Juliet, etc). I think the only one I read on my own was To Kill a Mockingbird. I read it in 8th grade as a bookreport book. My teacher was very impressed. I didn't have to read it in high school until my junior year. Oh, I did read a couple Shakespeare plays in college for my own enjoyment, but I can't remember which ones now, lol.

I've read all of those except Little Women. I wasn't forced to, I read them because I loved to read. I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was in high school. We read Romeo and Juliet in class. I picked up a Midsummer Night's Dream from the library, and i was hooked.

I never really participated in the reading of classics in school unless it was done in the classroom. I hated being made to do anything. As an adult, however, I've discovered an appreciation for them that I wouldn't have had as a kid. I've gone back and read the collected works of Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility being a particular favorite), Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott, Swiss Family Robinson (also a dear favorite) by Johann Davis Wiess, The Chronicles of Narnia, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and many others. I'm glad, truth be known, that I waited until I was older to attempt to read these great works of literature as I wouldn't have loved them the way I do now when I was younger.

I read treasure Island and 20000 leagues Under the see.

A book is a Clasic only if the reader thinks so.I don't consider Gone With The Wind a classic.I consider Pride And Prejedice to be a classic and I have read it.

i nevr read any of d classics..bt i would like to read...can any1 suggest me vat sh'd i read in classics?is dat difficult for understanding?

its a good thing i (being from india and of science stream) was never forced to read clasics. 'Robinson crusoe by daniel defoe' was my first read. it is one of the best adventure novel i hav read and the only novel i hav dared to read twice. lately i hav read a good number of classics.'les miserables by victor hugo' and 'mayor of the casterbridge by thomas hardy' the true masterpieces on the tendencies of the human nature. while thomas hardy concentrates upon the realistic human psyche, victor hugo in les miserables is an idealist. i also read 'a farewell to arms', 'for whom the bell tolls', 'the old man and the sea' all by ernest hemingway, some time back. though all of the three were pretty involving, i liked 'the old man and the sea'. 'gone with the wind' by margaret mitchell is a mammoth novel but u remain hooked up till the end. though i started it with a reputation of being the greatest romantic novel of all times, i found it has much more to offer than that. 'the fountain head' by ayn rand is a novel(or rather an idealistic philosophy) which has the capabilitiy to change the way u think, whether u agree with her views or not. if one wants some quality light read one ought to read mark twain. i read recently three of his novels - 'a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court', 'the prince and the pauper' and 'adventures of tom sawyer'. i liked 'adventures of tom sawyer' most. it is really the most natural humor i hav ever read. right now i m reading 'adventures of huckleberry finn'. lets see how it turns out.

I'm afraid, so many people don't like classics because they had to read them in school. In High School I had to read 'Hamlet', 'Odyssee', 'Iliade', 'War and peace' (I heard an interesting thing lately. The word 'mir' in Russian has actually two meanings, 'peace', and 'world'. Now it was discussed somewhere, what Tolstoy actually meant, 'War and peace', or 'War and world'), 'Yevgeni (Eugene) Onegin' (a splendid thing actually but how many pupils like verses, even when they are sooo witty?) bu Pushkin, 'Father Goriot' by Balzac, and of course there were our Estonian classics, like Tammsaare, and Tuglas (I'm not sure at the moment, how much of their works are translated to English), etc. I don't mention the Soviet garbage we had to read! Now I'm working in the library, and I see, what the pupils have to read at school nowdays. All the classics I mentioned above are still in program but there are so many more, even if I'm leaving the Estonian authors out: 'King Odipus' by Sophokles, 'Steppenwolf' by Hesse (I liked 'The Glass Bead Game' more), 'Jane Eyre' (Bronte sisters are a bit too romantic for me. I prefer Jane Austen, any time, especially 'Pride and Prejudice', and 'Persuasion'), 'Lolita' by Nabokov, 'Lord of the Flies' by Golding, 'Plague' by Camus, 'Master and Margarita' by Bulgakov (an absolutely wonderful philosofical satire about Soviet life in 20-s of 20. Century, with religious touch), 'Catcher in The Rye', and 'Love Story' by Erich Segal, and there are many more. Every time I ask myself, will all these good books be spoiled for the children also? It would be pity...

i have read so much i probably have read them all in my time lol but i did so enjoy dracula

Don't know what are the classics you consider, but I've read on my own books like: - The Lord of the Rings - Chronicles of Narnia - 1984, George Orwell - The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas - Os Lusíadas, Luís de Camões And I'm looking for (when I've got the money to buy them): - The Count of Monte Cristo - Ivanhoe - MacBeth - Hamlet - Odissey - The Illiad - The Divine Comedy - Alice in the Wonderland - The Wizard of Oz

Some.. Like Lord Of the Rings, Rome and Julie, Hamlet and some more :D

one of my favorites, and i must admit, i didn't read much of it, as the movie my teacher showed in class followed the book EXACTLY, was Pride and Prejudice.

"Jane Eyre" and "Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass". It was in the middle of summer, we have a small library in our house, and I just tried to read on it. It was kind of old, the one that we have, and I just got fascinated with it since then. I remembered, I even wake up at nights, because I can't bear to sleep a chapter of it!