When did you last read one of the classics. Ive downloaded quite a few for free. Ive almost finished sons and lovers, so long since i read it i had forgotten how good it is. Might read david copperfield next |
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Read them all the time, love Dostoevsky and Tolstoy; have filled my Kindle with lots of classic freebies, and seeing as I spend so much time commuting to/from work, I go through them at quite a steady pace  |
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Depends what you mean by classic - I read a lot of sci-fi classics 
In all seriousness, the last classic I attempted to read was Les Miserables. I'm going to see the show later this year so I wanted a good idea.
Before that was probably something by Anthony Trollope  |
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On Sparta - Plutarch
Those Spartans were most definitely nuts.
Les Miserables is an awesome book, it would be better if he didnt have quite so many 20 page rants about Napoleon although the book would loose some of its character if too many of the cultural references went. The show is amazing i went a few weeks ago. |
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"On Sparta - Plutarch
Those Spartans were most definitely nuts.
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Have that waiting for me at home in paperback, really looking forward to reading it. Definitely qualifies as a "classic"  |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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Last classic i read was Lady Chatterleys Lover...i adore D H Laurence....but i tend to read two or three other books then choose a classic to either get re acquainted or read one i havent read before..i love classics...try The Love letters of Abelard and Helouise Diamonds....fabulous ...and all true! |
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"On Sparta - Plutarch
Those Spartans were most definitely nuts.
Have that waiting for me at home in paperback, really looking forward to reading it. Definitely qualifies as a "classic" "
Yes it is definitely a "classic" after that i have "The Gallic Wars - Julius Caesar" im going through a bit of a classical history phase! Very strange was Sparta, a bit of a mix between a military dictatorship, monarchy (with two monarchs) a communist social structure and an awful lot of slaves/serfs who did all the non military work.
As a word of advise to people if you ever intend to by The Illyad or The Odyssey, don't buy the Wordsworth editions, 17th century translations of ancient Greek do not make for a easy reading experience!
For anyone that has worked there way through them, i salute you! |
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I am sorry to say i havent read a classic since school 30 years ago, Mac Beth. i have never been inspired to read the classic, in my opinion old fashioned books. It is strange as i like documentaries on older things, just not the books.
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"On Sparta - Plutarch
Those Spartans were most definitely nuts.
Have that waiting for me at home in paperback, really looking forward to reading it. Definitely qualifies as a "classic"
Yes it is definitely a "classic" after that i have "The Gallic Wars - Julius Caesar" im going through a bit of a classical history phase! Very strange was Sparta, a bit of a mix between a military dictatorship, monarchy (with two monarchs) a communist social structure and an awful lot of slaves/serfs who did all the non military work.
As a word of advise to people if you ever intend to by The Illyad or The Odyssey, don't buy the Wordsworth editions, 17th century translations of ancient Greek do not make for a easy reading experience!
For anyone that has worked there way through them, i salute you!"
I have read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.  |
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"On Sparta - Plutarch
Those Spartans were most definitely nuts.
Have that waiting for me at home in paperback, really looking forward to reading it. Definitely qualifies as a "classic"
Yes it is definitely a "classic" after that i have "The Gallic Wars - Julius Caesar" im going through a bit of a classical history phase! Very strange was Sparta, a bit of a mix between a military dictatorship, monarchy (with two monarchs) a communist social structure and an awful lot of slaves/serfs who did all the non military work.
As a word of advise to people if you ever intend to by The Illyad or The Odyssey, don't buy the Wordsworth editions, 17th century translations of ancient Greek do not make for a easy reading experience!
For anyone that has worked there way through them, i salute you!
I have read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. "
They are very good but i had to buy the penguin editions to fully enjoy them. The English translation in the Wordsworth ones is so out of date that its practically a different language in parts! |
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"Also read works by Aeschylus, Ovid, Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes ...... can you tell I like to read 'the classics'? "
Nice collection
The Histories by Herodotus is a good read for a very Greek view on the world, It even mentions Britain (were the tin isles)
The Aeneid by Virgil is the Roman equivalent of the Illyad and the Odyssey |
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"Blimey i am out of my depth with all you intellectules I can read though lol just not the stuff you all like lol, but enjoy your old fashioned books x"
A large part of it is getting a good translation and perseverance, if you can get past the sometimes rather odd seeming writing style they arent half bad :p |
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Frankenstein - jeez that was 'hard work'
I am not a great fan of fiction, but in terms of enjoyment, I must say I did enjoy 'Of Mice and Men' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' though whether you can class them as classics is debateable. |
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"Blimey i am out of my depth with all you intellectules I can read though lol just not the stuff you all like lol, but enjoy your old fashioned books x
A large part of it is getting a good translation and perseverance, if you can get past the sometimes rather odd seeming writing style they arent half bad :p"
Dream of the rood in its original Old English is not for the faint hearted! |
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"Blimey i am out of my depth with all you intellectules I can read though lol just not the stuff you all like lol, but enjoy your old fashioned books x
A large part of it is getting a good translation and perseverance, if you can get past the sometimes rather odd seeming writing style they arent half bad :p
Dream of the rood in its original Old English is not for the faint hearted! "
Anything with the words "old" and "english" in the same sentence is not for the faint hearted! |
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"1984" & "brave new world" they give contrasting views of a future society and consequently good to read back to back
Or "Animal Farm" - a wonderful analysis of the reality of left wing politicians |
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""1984" & "brave new world" they give contrasting views of a future society and consequently good to read back to back
Or "Animal Farm" - a wonderful analysis of the reality of left wing politicians"
I think you just mean politicians there, left and right |
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It is interesting, over 20 years ago latin as a subject was no longer required for entry to the Bar.
Hard choice learn lartin or modern studies, when people say the classics. Do they infer the pride of Enlish lit, or perhaps books translated into passable English.
Classic Sci fi is just as good as a book written over 800 years ago.
Non fiction is always a subject matter worth exploring.
The conquest of New Spain is a book i like to keep to hand.
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By *waymanMan
over a year ago
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"Does Cider with Rosie count as a classic?"
Modern classic, along with 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning' - which is essential reading for anyone who reads Homage to Catalonia and wishes there was more about the Spanish....
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""1984" & "brave new world" they give contrasting views of a future society and consequently good to read back to back
Or "Animal Farm" - a wonderful analysis of the reality of left wing politicians"
One of the bitter ironies of Orwell's life is that people have forgotten that he was a socialist and wrote one of the great English socialist tracts of the twentieth century (The Lion and the Unicorn)
Animal Farm was an assault on dishonesty and totalitarianism, not socialism. The communists wanted to kill him in Spain not because he wasn't a socialisr but because he was too much of a socialist for them.... |
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