The Classics - Page 2

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.

Originally posted by: lucky_lakshmi

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

😳aww...thanks...Yes, it was the original😳 It was highly difficult to read at first but very interesting.😳

Homer has many great classics, like Jane and many others. I havernt gotten a chance to read them, but i read the summarries, and it sounds amazing.

Originally posted by: bhavana02

Pride and Prejudice is fantastic - not much romance, but so much love!

To Kill a Mockingbird is probably one of the best written books that I have ever read, so subtle yet powerful...considering Harper Lee never wrote again, I really wonder where it all came from.

I still have to read dis book.. Even through i try 2 stay away from serious books it sounds nice!😳

Er...Jane Eyre, I never connected with...perhaps I read it at rather an impatient stage of my life, but I think I have to try it again...I don't know, there are so many books considered classics, one feels compelled to try them all, whether overrated or not!

Same ere.. When i read dis novel i was very young, around 11.. So even i feel dat i shound read dis novel bec at dat stage i had a brain of a child who cudnt understand such things!😳

I never loved Anne Frank personally but there are some extremely touching parts - all the more so when you know it is all true. It's just that diaries kept by real people are rarely as coherent as Anne Frank's (my own is certainly spilled with events from all over the place, irrespective of relevance or time) - considering that, it's a pretty amazing work in itself.