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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

Long time but my daughter has downloaded talking books for me now I am hoping I will be able to concentrate better with those... Wonder if you can get Erotic literature in the talking book line

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By *nytimeadeMan
over a year ago

Skegness

just finished reading .'OIL' by Upton Sinclair , also 'The Devils Excrement ' very interesting ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I downloaded the Arabian nights stories.

Not really erotic, but full of sex and takes about six months to read, but interesting and educational. x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i think literotica do listening stories - dont know if they can be downloaded to kindle or e-readers tho lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have the complete works of Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare on my ipad. I do have the books as well but like the convenience of having them on the ipad.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Know sod all about classic books, or great american novels..but i'll bet i'm reading one now..

Stephen Kings 'Salems Lot'.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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

dirtybigbadsgirlville

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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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

At the moment I am reading 'The Great Gatsby', haven't read it in years and forgot just how good it was...

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville


"At the moment I am reading 'The Great Gatsby', haven't read it in years and forgot just how good it was..."
I think its great, its like bumping into an old friend

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also read works by Aeschylus, Ovid, Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes ...... can you tell I like to read 'the classics'?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

You can bugger off with all the last lot lol. I will stick with DH Lawrence, dicken, bronte et al lol. Just finished sons and lovers now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *ub bbwWoman
over a year ago

oldbury

i just finished the great gatsby and the portrait of dorain gray my favourite book is wuthering heights and it will no doubt be read again soon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Does Cider with Rosie count as a classic?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like arnold bennet, clayhanger, and the old wives tale. Cant remember the others.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Fiesta readers letters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


""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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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 *ANWIDGESCouple
over a year ago

DONCASTER

Anything by Hunter S Thompson, named my boy after him...

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By *waymanMan
over a year ago

newcastle


"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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By *waymanMan
over a year ago

newcastle


""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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