The Classics and Philosophy thread

Oh dear. Methink's I've started up a Charlotte vs Emily war. Though I must say, as before, my loyalties still lie with Charlotte. Sorry Kirsten! But Emily is second-favourite. There's your consolation, dahlin. ^_^

EM Forster's A Room With A View.

OMG Stella, you're the first person who's read that! xDD It was indeed adorable, I finished it about a week ago.
And I'm reading Mansfield Park at the moment.

Methink's I've started up a Charlotte vs Emily war. Though I must say, as before, my loyalties still lie with Charlotte. Sorry Kirsten! But Emily is second-favourite. There's your consolation, dahlin. ^_^

That is not a consolation !!!!!
Never! Emily is hundreds of times better, hehehe I shall start a poll
xD

Oscar Wilde is delicious. I adore edgar allen poe, also. I'm so glad someone loves Rebecca too! Wooo! But dickens is awesome.

Philophy: jung is great, along with confucious (although he was anti-feminist), and plato.

Classics: alexandre dumas, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, ernest hemmingway, virginia woolf, modern classics like Capote, etc.

Classics, huh? I've read a few and I'm planning to read more.

One I did not like at all (I'm not going to say, hate) was...Willa Cather's My Antonia. I had to read it for last years Am. Lit. class. It was so boring and I felt it dragged on. I'm not huge for prairie life.

I'm not going to say Austen because I have too many opinions on her novels.

I read half of Jane Eyre, and my mom keeps on bugging me to finish it. But! I will. If I had to choose between Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights, it'll probabaly be Jane Eyre. I just didn't like Wuthering Heights, I guess it's not me. Talking about the Bronte's, has anybody read Anne Bronte's (I think this is right) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall? I would like to read it, but would love to have someone's opinion on it.

Anyway, this are the classics I would love to read...sorry, Kristen. I haven't read much classics and need opinions on these. Is that alright? And hopefully this is the start of something new!

*Bram Stoker's Dracula ~ Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Robert L. Stevenson's Treasure Island (is that a children's classic?) & Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde

*Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho (I'm huge for Gothic literature!! For instance ~ Northanger Abbey) ~ Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters & Cranford ~ E.M. Forster's A Room with a view (I have the book in my room)

*Alexandre Dumas's Three Musketeers & The Man in the Iron Mask ~ Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day ~ Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders. Oh and the novel Daniel Deronda. I don't know the author to that one.

I'm sure there's more wonderful classics out there, that I forgot about. Opinions. Opinions. And more Opinions one these classics will be most helpful! Thank you!!

*Merry

Aw. Wuthering Heights was awesome! But Jane Eyre was great as well. Can't choose between those two, they're both great.

I love Jane Austen. But I did not like Sense and Sensibility. The heroine was way to silly and obnoxious and whiny for me. Marianne Dashwood? Pssh...

And to anyone who has not read Les Miserables by Victor Hugo please read it. It is the most awesome book ever.

Philosophy? Sophie's World was an interesting book to read.

Oh man, My Antonia. That book sucked. It's just one of those "Why would I care about this?" books.

But yes, classics are awesome! That's why they're classics...

Anyway, I always like classic scifi/horror, but if we're talking about regular classics, I'd say my favorite is The Odyssey. I read it in fifth grade, and then in seventh, and then in ninth, and then eleventh. I guess that makes it every two years. It's like my Bible. Odysseus is the ultimate adventurer, and I think that's what draws me back to the book over and over... also, there's more I understand each time I read it as I have new experiences in my life, so that's fun too. ^^

Merry_Haven wrote:
Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters & Cranford

Ooh, Merry, I command you to add 'North and South' to that list. It is the ultimate Gaskell novel. And you absolutely must watch the BBC adaptation, for I promise you will fall in love with Richard Armitage.