Young Writers Society

Well, part of what makes it "classic" is that it has stood the test of time, or can be considered timless. People remember it. So yeah, there isn't really a specific number of years, but if you talk to certain people, they will say that it's proved it's timelessness once it's been around for one hundred years.

I didn't like Jane Eyre much. I stopped reading it will about twenty-five pages to go because I knew how it ended, and the book was taking so long to get to that point. It was just so tedious.

Hehe, thanks guys!

Got Animal Farm, 1984, Lord of the Flies, The Red Badge of Courage and Farenheit 451 (not really a 'classic', but it's been popular for quite awhile) upstairs.

I want to read Homer, definitely, Ari.

Phew...now I have a list of good things to read! Whee!

The Bible! It's withstood how many millenia and still remains as fresh as it was!

Hehehe...I've read a lot of that...but wouldn't have thought of it.

Haven't read the bible and I'm not interested.

My favourites include:

Villette -- Charlotte Brönte
Wuthering Heights -- Emily Brönte
A Tale of Two Citites -- Charles Dickens
Frankenstein -- Mary Shelley
Animal Farm -- George Orwell
Ivanhoe -- Sir Walter Scott
Oliver Twist -- Charles Dickens

Classics? Here you go:

Watchmen -- By Alan Moore, and Dave Gibbons.
The Dark Knight Returns -- By Frank Miller.
The Dark Knight Strikes Back -- By Frank Miller.
Kingdom Come -- By Mark Waid, and Alex Ross.

I hate Jane Eyre in my opinion she's just a simpleton and I hated stupid Mr.Rochester or whatever his name was.

I recommend "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding and "Secrets of the Heart" by Kahlil Gibran.

Ooh, see, I loved Jane Eyre!

I must be a simpleton too...

Lol

I vote, and ever shall, for The Lord of the Rings! Ok, I recommend it; by now a timeless classic no doubt. But I would also recommend Frankenstein by Mary-Shelley (someone mentioned) Dracula (forgive me I seemed to have forgotten the author, and yet it is on the tip of my tongue!), To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (or the other way around, and to think I only read it last year!)

Bram Stroker wrote Dracula.

Thank you! Now I remember...Anyway, Poe's works are verrry good, and I'd recommend any of them. The Pit and the Pendulum is one of my favourites.

You're welcome.

The Pit and the Pendulum! I've tried looking for that book in my local library and found a really horribly mashed up one. The library can't bother to replace it so I'm gonna have to look else where.

I loved Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. James Joyce's Ulysses is fab too if you've got a few months. And Silas Marner by George Eliot - fantastic book!!