I have an obsession with classics and Philosophy.
So feel free to discuss your classic and philosophy likings 
Philosophy - Kind of self explanatory, what ones do you like? What ones do you agree with/disagree with? Your deities < as in worship-wise 
gosh that sounds strange but hopefully you get what I mean.
classics---- Pretty easy really. Your favourites.
Then we discuss authors and philosophers.
authors - name the geniuses, and the idiots, or so to speak Don't offend anyone but voice your opinions.
philosophers --- which are prodigial and which are stupid? You think.........
Personally I adore Jung (and yes I am only thirteen) what can I say, I have no life? I have abnormal interests? I am a freak? A self confessed nerd? An aspiring philosopher?
Actually I talk too much.
So you tell me your opinions
-Kirsten xxx
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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.
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. ^^
Aw. Wuthering Heights was awesome! But Jane Eyre was great as well. Can't choose between those two, they're both great.
But I did not like Sense and Sensibility. The heroine was way to silly and obnoxious and whiny for me. Marianne Dashwood? Pssh...
I love Jane Austen.
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.
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
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.
Never! Emily is hundreds of times better, hehehe
xD
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. ^_^
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.
Gosh. Somebody likes Wuthering Heights. Me, it dragged a little, I did enjoy it, but Jane Eyre was sooo much better.
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I started Agnes Grey, but I haven't read enough to form an opinion on Anne. Charlotte is, therefore, my favourite, even if I did give up on Villette (come on! Lucy just randomly decided not to mention that Dr. John or whatever his name was was her godmother's son! What's the point! That's pretty much where I stopped, I thought, come on, why didn't you just tell us that?)
I forgot: EM Forster's A Room With A View. Cute, much? Possibly one of the most adorable things I've ever read.
I kinda want to get into Victor Hugo, but he can wait. After Dracula, I have Forster's A Passage to India and Mansfield Park lined up, and then I think I want to read Frankenstein -apart from, of course, the more recent books on my agenda.
Dracula is so good, I love it! Except it's annoying that Mina, who has done much more than Arthur or Quincey in trying to find out the bottom of the matter, is told to step back and let the men do the rest. Agh! Poor her. And surprisingly enough, Dracula himself has featured little since the beginning until the point I'm at. But some of it is really bone-chilling.
Oh, Tess! For all of you who haven't read it, I can't recommend it highly enough. I love it, and I love Angel *drools* He's like, my Mr. Darcy (ignoring how he treats Tess when, you know...) but good Angel I love. Bad Angel, I still love, but get annoyed with.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!! Caps lock was needed there
Everyone seems to hate Charles Dickens!
*bursts into uncontrollable tears*
Astounding.
So, I adore Thomas Hardy, especially for Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Charlotte Bronte, because she wrote Jane Eyre it makes her my favourite out of the Bronte sisters. Jane Eyre is my ultimate refuge.
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca was astounding.
Leo Tolstoy, mainly for Anna Karenina.
Louisa May Alcott > Little Women was amazing. So sweet! I read it when I was much younger and still do.
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. That. was. AMAZING. Sorry for the Caps, but I am literally screaming. It's younger children's literature, but I am so not above reading it. That book got me through the hardest times, as cheesy as that may sound.
There's loads more but I won't bore you. ^_^
I love Jane Austen but I didn't like two of her books, namely Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I love Persuasion though and Pride and Prejudice and I'm pretty much head over heels in love with Mr. Darcy.
I love Mark Twain.
Thomas Hardy is another one of my faves. oh and of course, Edgar Allan Poe.
My favoirte book is Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. It's a masterpiece! The characters themselves can only be made by a genius!
Oh and there's another one I really like, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.
ahahah I know what you mean about small amounts, but personally I like lots, so my brain can frazzle
What can I say? I'm obsessed 
I have the complete works of Oscar Wilde on my bookshelf
. I love him...
Hm... classics, well, I have quite a thing for them. I've read and loved all of Jane Austen's save for Mansfield Park -I'm taking a break from it. Wuthering Heights was alright, but Jane Eyre was fantastic. I couldn't get into Villette. Little Women of course, currently reading the third in the series, "Little Men", so cute! I Capture the Castle- is that a classic? Well, it's printed by vintage so I say it is -I cry every time during it. I want to get Bram Stoker's Dracula. And over the summer I read Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and loved it- except for the end. Mum wants me to read Anna Karrenina (sp?) by... is it Tolstoy?
Philosophy is good in small amounts, but beyond that, like physics, it gives me a headache. I couldn't get past the first chapter of Sophie's World, it was just too much to think about.
I hate Dickens as well. His style is much to dense and flowery.
The narrative is very dry.
I read Jonathan Swift and I found him more modern! (he's from the 1700's)
seriously, that's funny
You.Hate.Dickens? :'(
Oooh! Oscar Wilde. I've never read anything by him, well besides something that I read when I was in a state of semi consciousness, as in, almost asleep yet not. Let's just say I don't remember it
Did you know that Descartes had a thing for women with one eye? I think it was him at least. Funny things you learn in class. Also, I forgot to mention I love lots of classics too. I adore Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and love pretty much anything by Jane Austen. I hate Dickens though! I don't know if these are classics yet, but Oscar Wilde's work I also love.
I think I read a book called Sophie's world by Jostein Gaarder (I think)
Oh! Descartes! I love him. >.<
-x
I love Philosophy! I basically got interested in it when I read Sophie's World, which if you like philsophy, is a great book to read! I'm taking Philosophy: Theory of Knowledge as a class next semester. Anyway, my favourites are Plato, Kant and Descartes. But Diogenes makes me laugh! Philosophy is so fasicnating.
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
and
stranger in a strange land
and
brave new world
No, I've not read it, but it's in my house, actually I'm looking at it right now cuz it's in the bookshelf opposite the computer
-Kirsten xxx
Me, too. You may be a freak, but I'm one as well
Have you read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment? Great philosophical book about the affect of guilt on the MC.
I think you might like it