Have you read a classic recently?

Anna-Violet_95 · Post by **Anna-Violet_95** » 12 Oct 2014, 04:33

How much beautiful experiences

Fortunately I have the same opportunity to share with you the Classic book which I prefer in this moment like before his lecture: Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe... I think that Moll can be considered one of the most true characters of ever... His life embodied a life without time: it is so current. Did you ever read it?

mellysw · Post by **mellysw** » 12 Oct 2014, 04:45

I haven't read Moll Flanders, no. The only book of Defoe's that I have read was Robinson Crosoe, and it wasn't one of my favorites.

I will definitely keep my eye out for Moll Flanders now though!

Anna-Violet_95 · Post by **Anna-Violet_95** » 12 Oct 2014, 10:17

mellysw wrote:I haven't read Moll Flanders, no. The only book of Defoe's that I have read was Robinson Crosoe, and it wasn't one of my favorites.

I will definitely keep my eye out for Moll Flanders now though!

:') I really hope you enjoy it... According to me, it deserve a lot of attentions, since it helped me a lot in different ways... even unconsciously. So I'm also here for a your judgment. ^^

tmcgilljr01 · Post by **tmcgilljr01** » 22 Oct 2014, 17:02

About a week or two ago I just finished reading "Treasure Island" for the first time. What a great story, the pacing, the characters, the images that Robert Louis Stevenson paints with his words. My only disappointments were that I finished it so quickly and that it was my first time reading it.

TinkKittyhawk · Post by **TinkKittyhawk** » 22 Oct 2014, 18:12

Does Truman Capote count? In Cold Blood was amazing, if not gruesome. Loved every second!

knighthkm · Post by **knighthkm** » 22 Oct 2014, 20:30

Currently reading The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. Pretty good so far.

rssllue · Post by **rssllue** » 22 Oct 2014, 23:11

Starting Swiss Family Robinson.

mikesx50 · Post by **mikesx50** » 25 Oct 2014, 15:17

Just finished Frankenstein. So thought provoking. Who really is the monster? Victor, the "monster" or society in general?

Post by **bookowlie** » 25 Oct 2014, 16:56

I read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole two months ago. I am pretty sure this book is considered a classic. It's weird that the author couldn't get a publishing company willing to publish it, and then his mother shopped it around to many publishers after his death.

zoomhex · Post by **zoomhex** » 25 Oct 2014, 22:58

I just finished reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for my literature class, but the last classic I read of my own accord was 1984, which I read in April. I really want to read more Jane Austen or Emily Bronte books because I love their time period.

Kmikel0509 · Post by **Kmikel0509** » 26 Oct 2014, 22:02

Reading the Sherlock Holmes collection right now actually

michelleNYclassics · Post by **michelleNYclassics** » 09 Dec 2014, 21:39

I too have recently read HG Wells' The Invisible Man. It's very easy to understand how the main character gets ahead of himself in this grand idea to become invisible. It is typical human-flaw fashion to only see the benefits in our ideas, however ludicrous. Pause our excitement for a reality-check? Never!

And so it is with sympathetic eyes that we suffer to watch him learn of the harsh drawbacks to his condition. Hindsight is always painfully clear... even, apparently, when one is invisible.

Alexandra Bayer · Post by **Alexandra Bayer** » 09 Dec 2014, 21:46

I had to read Great Expectations for my English ISU. I had nowhere near enough time to finish it, and I was bored out of my mind, so I ended up using shmoop.com for the chapter summaries.