Young Writers Society

I'd recommend Picture of Dorian Grey, for that matter I'd recommend anything my Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Ernest is great. It's a play though. I don't know if that counts in your English class. Also one of my favorites is The Iliad. Not a big fan of The Odyssey though.
I love Peter Pan and Treasure Island is awesome too.

I know what you mean. I read both the Iliad and the Odyssey in eighth grade for my Omnibus class (Antiquity), and though the Iliad was definitely more difficult, I ended up liking it better. I suppose it just seemed less contrived, but that might just be me.

Besides that, I didn't really like Odysseus as much as Homer truly intended me too. He was pretty sneaky, if you know what I mean. Plus I love Hektor and I was still ticked off that he'd died. *shrug*

Both are worth the reading, though.

areida07 wrote:The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas (Dry at times, but it only took me about a week to get through reading kind of slowly)

I have this feeling that you read an abridged version since the most complete version (I'm still not sure whether it IS the complete version) is 1542 pages, and if you read that in a week reading it slowly I'm impressed! But if anyone gets thier hands on the full version, read it! It's really quite funny.

Areida, I know exactly what you mean about Odysseus. I didn't like him at all. I thought his character was tricky and decietful. My favorite is Achilles. I think his character is awesome.

Melodie, I love anything by Oscar Wilde, he's one of my favourite writers.

The Iliad was awesome, I loved it. I'm in middle of The Aeneid, I don't really like it. But its for class so it must be read, *sigh*. I'll pull through it.

My favourites include:

Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Wuthering heights - Emily Brontë

Triona! It excites me so much that you put down Anna Karenina! It's the best book I've ever read, period. Loved it, loved it. Some consider it the greatest novel ever written, and if you don't believe me, look it up on the internet! It's fabulous. Really long, though. It took me about 6 months to get through it.

Wuthering Heights is good and so is Vanity Fair by Thackery, but it really doesn't get that much attention.

-Sarah

Melodie wrote:Areida, I know exactly what you mean about Odysseus. I didn't like him at all. I thought his character was tricky and decietful. My favorite is Achilles. I think his character is awesome.

Achilles? Meh. He was always running to his mommy to gripe. I love Hektor and I was pretty fond of Diomedes too.

I never liked Greek mythology but I enjoyed reading Odysseus.

areida07 wrote:

Melodie wrote:Areida, I know exactly what you mean about Odysseus. I didn't like him at all. I thought his character was tricky and decietful. My favorite is Achilles. I think his character is awesome.

Achilles? Meh. He was always running to his mommy to gripe. I love Hektor and I was pretty fond of Diomedes too.

True, he does do a bit of that. But I love him anyway. Hektor is ok, a close second for me. Diomedes? He seemed to me to be just Odysseus's partner in crime.

I love classics! read the princess bride. I know it sounds girly but it is definetly not. It is only girly in name.

Ooh, the Princess Bride is pretty cool. I've only read the first few chapters but...ah vell. Cool book.

Odysseus is awesome! Deceitful, yes, and he does do lots of stupid things, but look at his character! He's loved by his servants - always a good trait. He is loyal to his wife (yes, he goes on several sexual escapades, but he always wants to return to her, and most of the time he's just lost, trying to get back home and doing everything he can to get back home. He's lost everything. He just wants to go home.

I love him... so human, so heroic. I've based one of my best characters off him. ^_^;;

Are you talking anout Westly? I love everything about him but his name. But if you read buttercup's baby you know he is inecent in most sexual aspects.

Oh no... Odysseus. Completely different guy. And he went around quite a bit...