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[Silverkitty000]

That stuff your english teacher made you read. Stuff you where forced to write boring essays on. so this may only interest a select few of you..

Personally, I love the classics, though I didn't really start reading much of them untill the past couple years.
First few classics I read where Greek, The Iliad, Madea...and some misc works by Thucydides, Homer, Plato... then on to some Roman writtings.
As of late though I've been going through slightly more modern works from the 1700s and 1800s.

Shakspere verious works
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Misrables
Crime and Punishishment

but from there I'm a little stuck on what to read next...I know there are alot of good books from that same time peroid but I just don't know where to start. After reading Crime and Punishment, I kinda want to find something light hearted.
been considering The Three Musketters and the Man in the Iron Mask

So I guess, I'd just to like to ask what any classics people might have as favorites from any time peroid as long as it's old enough to be considered 'classic'.

[morndry]

Walden
Shakespeare's sonnets
Emmerson's Self-Reliance
Twain's Short Stories

[Nim]

The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Misrables

[The Reason]

Time to go to me bookcase and see what I have in there:

The Oddessy of Homer
The Pilgrim's Progress
THe Lives of John Donne and George Herbert
Folk Lore and Fable
Volume 1 + 2 of a collection of English Poetry (volume 3 is by my other computer) from Caucher to Gray, and Collins to Fitzgerald
Two Years Before the Mast, And Twenty Four Years After
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
Marcus Aurellius
Heart of Darkness
Dante's Inferno
Crime and Punishment
Notes from the Underground
Candide

And thats just at a glance. (its a VERY well stocked bookcase) So I guess i'm a fan of the classics.

-The Reason

[Psycat]

To Kill a Mockingbird
Silverwing Trilogy
The Outsiders

I know, I know. Lame right? :|

[Nim]

I guess you mean american classic, but I like the work by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

[Silverkitty000]

American Classics? Uh..not really. A Classic is a classic no matter where is was written.
Personally I've read many american already, and frankly kind sick of it. ;p

Currently, I have alot of Dostoyevsky, I just finished Crime and Punishment...
right now I think I need something lighter to read before I dive back into Fyodor's stuff. But he is great!

[Mitternacht]

Oh god! Classics bring out the lit geek in me.

I have the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (he's my favorite!)
Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Dangerous Lisasions
A bunch of Shakespeare
And a bunch of old horror types, like Dracula.

Watching the anime Gankutsou made me want to read The Count of Monte Cristo.

[NekOtaku]

does a clockwork orange count?
if so, a clockwork orange!

[riff13]

I was always quite fond of anything written by Mark Twain & Gorge Orwell. I Liked Brave New World too.

[Olo_Eopia]

but from there I'm a little stuck on what to read next...I know there are alot of good books from that same time peroid but I just don't know where to start. After reading Crime and Punishment, I kinda want to find something light hearted.
been considering The Three Musketters and the Man in the Iron Mask

So I guess, I'd just to like to ask what any classics people might have as favorites from any time peroid as long as it's old enough to be considered 'classic'.

Three Musketters  and Man in the Iron Mask are both awesome books. plus there's a book that goes bettween them too but i don't remember the title right now. 

Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
are some good books as well

[IUG]

I know it's not really a classic yet, but the Hitchhiker's series was something I had to read over the summer once way back over the summer before my senior year of high school.  Best book I ever read for school.  However, I picked up 1984 about a year and a half ago, that's number 2.  It's funny reading those books back to back I should mention, because they both seem to have the same insane logic to things.  Hitchhiker's points it out as a joke, 1984 shows it the same way in a dead serious way.

[leblo64]

Nice ressurection.

[MengerSponge]

Some of the ones already mentioned are great; Crime and Punishment, Les Miserables, and Count of Monte Cristo are three of my favorites (to the person watching Gankutsuou, I'm half way through that, and there are obviously a lot of similarities, but there's tons more in the book, definitely worth a read).  George Orwell is also good, and many of his you can read in a day.  Other than that I'd say (in no order):

Catcher in the Rye I really like, though a lot of people don't
Lord of the Flies (short)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denosivich (also short)
Don Quixote

The latter especially; I'm not finished, but it's surprisingly funny, considering it's about 400 years old.

[Olo_Eopia]

Also any of the Ray Bradberry books.