Your top ten favorite "classic" book?

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  1. Banana Jelly's Avatar

    Banana Jelly said: August 11, 2010 10:37 PM

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    The term "classic" would mean old books, which are now out-of-copyright.

    I would say

    1. Beowulf
    2. The war of the Worlds
    3. Sherlock Holmes
    4. Arthur and the Round Table
    5. Greek Myths and Legends
    6. Platos Republic


    That's all I actually liked so far. I haven't read quite alot though.

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    Spitfire -WONDERBOLT! said: August 11, 2010 10:45 PM

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    1. The Lord of the Rings
    2. Poirot
    3. Hornblower
    4. All creatures great and small
    5. Pendennis
    6. Sharpe
    7. Sherlock Homes
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    VALIS said: August 12, 2010 01:40 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel of the 32nd Foot View Post
    1. The Lord of the Rings
    2. Poirot
    3. Hornblower
    4. All creatures great and small
    5. Pendennis
    6. Sharpe
    7. Sherlock Homes
    You didn't pay any attention to the OP did you?
     

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    Spitfire -WONDERBOLT! said: August 12, 2010 01:49 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Duke View Post
    You didn't pay any attention to the OP did you?
    Nope. I could't understand what he was going on about so I ignored it, in hindsight perhapps not the cleverest thing to do.
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    Hobbes said: August 12, 2010 01:39 PM

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    What is Plato's republic?

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    Dr. Croccer said: August 12, 2010 01:53 PM

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    In no order:

    -Robinson Crusoe
    -Kim
    -Confessions of an English Opium Eater
    -Last of the Mohicans
    -The Aenid
    -The Iliad
    -Beowulf
    -The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    -The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    -Tom Jones
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    Prince Odysseus said: August 12, 2010 08:51 PM

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    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    Great Expectations
    Sons and Lovers
    Jane Eyre
    A Farewell to Arms
    The Great Gatsby
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    Bokks said: August 12, 2010 09:46 PM

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    So, just for clarification, everyone, out-of-copyright means that it's been published for 99 years... at least in the US. I believe Mexico is 75, and at least one European country is 80, but to my knowledge Canada, the UK and France follows the US board for copy-right.

    Lord of the Rings was published in the '50s, the Hobbit a few years after that.

    Anyway, I'd have to say some of mine would be:
    Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (I haven't actually finished that one yet, I'm only about 800 pages into it... )
    The Golden Ass by Apuleius
    The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
    The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
    A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    ... wow, I'm drawing a total blank right now...

    Not entirely on topic, per-say, but some others I've been meaning to read are
    War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Murder in the Rue Morge by Edgar Allan Poe
    Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
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    hippacrocafish said: August 12, 2010 09:50 PM

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    I've only liked one of the 'classics' that I've read and that would be 1984 by George Orwell.
     

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    Bokks said: August 12, 2010 10:07 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by hippacrocafish View Post
    I've only liked one of the 'classics' that I've read and that would be 1984 by George Orwell.
    I would think that's a classic--and a great book!--but it was published in 1949 so it's still in copyright.

    I would highly recommend Don Quixote, it is one of the funniest books I've ever read!

    It's pretty much 1600 pages, though... if you're into more light reading The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a killer, too. That one's really sarcastic, though... it takes a special constitution to really enjoy it, but I highly recommend it, anyway.
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    hippacrocafish said: August 12, 2010 10:17 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bokks View Post
    I would think that's a classic--and a great book!--but it was published in 1949 so it's still in copyright.
    Why would that matter?

    I would highly recommend Don Quixote, it is one of the funniest books I've ever read!

    It's pretty much 1600 pages, though... if you're into more light reading The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a killer, too. That one's really sarcastic, though... it takes a special constitution to really enjoy it, but I highly recommend it, anyway.
    I saw a really cheesy movie adaptation that didn't exactly wow me, but I'm sure the book is much better. If I ever have the urge I may pick it up.
     

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    Banana Jelly said: August 13, 2010 12:08 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by hippacrocafish View Post
    Why would that matter?


    Because you have to read the OP.
     

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    hippacrocafish said: August 13, 2010 01:18 PM

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    Because you have to read the OP.
    Sorry.
     

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    Winter said: August 14, 2010 01:27 AM

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    Good question. Lets see...

    loosely organized, though in no sort of ranking -

    Metamorphoses - Ovid - One of our most important sources for the stories of Greco-Roman mythology.
    Menaechmi - Plautus - quite hilarious
    The Aeneid - Virgil
    Poetry of Catullus

    The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
    A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
    The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

    Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
    The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare

    That was difficult; Many of my favorite classic books still have anywhere from 4-30 years left on copyright!

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