The Classics

Hi Everyone,

What is your favourite "classic" novel? Why do you love it? what novels that are considered classics that you have read and you think its' overrated? Why?

Happy discussing!

Nice Topic..

Im not sure whether it is a classic or not but it would be David Copperfield and Jane Eyre.. Both of them are fabolous books and i love re-reading them anytime! 👏 The way the characters in these books have risen out of thier shoes, to grow and enhance, not to become a hero, but rather a normal human being! Shakespeare's winter tale, which was even through not one of his famous works, was really amazing! 👏

I have tried to read Pride and Predjuice and it had dissapointed me as i found it a little boring.

However since i m not a paticular fan of classic and not such a think reader i havnt read dat much to be dissapointed! 😆

MY FAV: Crime and Punishment(Fyodor Dostoevskii)
Close cums The Idiot(Fyodor Dostoevskii) and The bROTHERS kAramazov(Again Dostoevskii)- the best novel ever!!!😃
and Notes from Underground gives tough competition~!😃

But Crime and Punishment I suppose is that epitome of Literature for ME!
I have never read a better Book and It will be difficult for another Book to beat THAT one bcoz I cannot explain and express the effect it made on me..I guess One has to read it to understand
My all time Fav Book!

Overrated: Hmm..I dunno really..Maybe to sum extend Turgenev's Fathes and Sons(It may be my fault that I wasnt able to appreciate it..bUt just being Frank..It didnt appeal to e much and I had huge expectations from it)

My favourite has to be "To Kill a Mokingbird by Harper Lee.
That book was magical and effortless and captured the time and essense of the story perfectly. It effectively deals with prejudices and racism in a time were the environment was volitile. It also shows how to never judge a person by your first impression or by rumors and second hand imformation. It in essense tells you to make judgements based on fact and to try to be honest and fair regardless of opposition. Sometimes taking the right stand means standing alone and this book teaches that you should always stand for truth and justice.

To me Diary of Anne Frank was overated. It simply bored me. I know that is considered to be a moving story of a young girl during the WW2 and the Holocust, but the tradegy of the time wasn't conveyed to me in her diary. It was simply a day by day account of a young thirteen year old girl about mundane everyday things. I admit that her story itself was a sad and moving one but the diary just didn't portray that for me.This is just my opinion.

My favourite has to be "To Kill a Mokingbird by Harper Lee.
That book was magical and effortless and captured the time and essense of the story perfectly. It effectively deals with prejudices and racism in a time were the environment was volitile. It also shows how to never judge a person by your first impression or by rumors and second hand imformation. It in essense tells you to make judgements based on fact and to try to be honest and fair regardless of opposition. Sometimes taking the right stand means standing alone and this book teaches that you should always stand for truth and justice.

To me Diary of Anne Frank was overated. It simply bored me. I know that is considered to be a moving story of a young girl during the WW2 and the Holocust, but the tradegy of the time wasn't conveyed to me in her diary. It was simply a day by day account of a young thirteen year old girl about mundane everyday things. I admit that her story itself was a sad and moving one but the diary just didn't portray that for me.This is just my opinion.

My fave so far is Jane Eyre. I haven't read that much classics and the ones I read I didn't like 😃

^^^Try Russian Yaarr...Leagues ahead of European Literature! Makes me gooo crazzzy!

Acc to me Classics Rock...Contemporary Literature pales in comparison
The Beauty of Classics is Unparalleled...
the speciality of a large number of Classics is that the reader finds a major role and the writer seldom gets judgemental abt the track of the characters and therein lies the reader's Part...(Anna Karenina being the best example in this case acc to me) ---this Contemporary books..Or to be fair...a lot of Contemporary books, if not all, conspicuously lack

Originally posted by: shellytt

My favourite has to be "To Kill a Mokingbird by Harper Lee.
That book was magical and effortless and captured the time and essense of the story perfectly. It effectively deals with prejudices and racism in a time were the environment was volitile. It also shows how to never judge a person by your first impression or by rumors and second hand imformation. It in essense tells you to make judgements based on fact and to try to be honest and fair regardless of opposition. Sometimes taking the right stand means standing alone and this book teaches that you should always stand for truth and justice.

To me Diary of Anne Frank was overated. It simply bored me. I know that is considered to be a moving story of a young girl during the WW2 and the Holocust, but the tradegy of the time wasn't conveyed to me in her diary. It was simply a day by day account of a young thirteen year old girl about mundane everyday things. I admit that her story itself was a sad and moving one but the diary just didn't portray that for me.This is just my opinion.

I agree.. I couldnt complete the Dairy of Anne Frank!😳

i love classics 😳
My favorites are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin and The Odyssey by Homer 😳 😳 😳
i simply love those books 😳 😳 😳 i fall into the characters and the novel 😳 😆 i am currently trying to find the time to read "to kill a mocking bird" and Jane, another classic by Homer 😳

^^^wow Having Read Odyssey (U refer to the Original I hope) is an achievement in Itself! 👏 😊