Reading the Classics?

Nick22 · **Reply #60 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:18:56 PM

I prefer the Odyessy myself over the Aenied, although both are classics ..

Belmont2500 · **Reply #61 on:** September 16, 2009, 04:02:51 PM

I think the one classic novel I liked the most after reading was The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #62 on:** September 16, 2009, 06:20:11 PM

I've read 10 Shakespeare plays. The first four were for school, and are bolded.

Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, As You Like It, A Comedy of Errors, and Richard III, not to mention an unknown amount of his sonnets and his will. Richard III was my favorite.

Noname · **Reply #63 on:** September 16, 2009, 07:03:33 PM

I've read dozens of classics, including but not limited to:

The Bible
The Odyssey
The Republic
Crito, Meno, Phaedo (trial, imprisonment, and death of Socrates)
Eutyphro (is something good because God commands it, or does God command something because it is good?)
The Laws
Machiavelli's The Prince
The Communist Manifesto (hated it)
Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Parts of the Iliad and the Aeneid.
Romeo and Juliet
Troilus and Cressida
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Hamlet
Parts of Ovid's Metamorphoses
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Othello
Henry V
H.G. Wells' The Time Machine
RUR (play which coined the name "robot", and is the influence for every piece of media with insane AIs)
The Twelfth Night
Various Legends of King Arthur, including the Spin-off "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
The Oedipus plays of Sophocles
The play Medea (it has been twisted by modern interpretations)
The Federalist Papers
Beowulf (easily on the bottom of my list in terms of quality)
The Wealth of Nations

And this is in no particular order.

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #64 on:** September 16, 2009, 10:27:34 PM

I guess the only classic I can think of off the top of my head is one we all know all too well.

A Christmas Carol

Seriously speaking, I'm more into something that's well-written than something like this. Charles Dickens' Ultimate Classic was too vague for my taste. IMO, the many different movie adaptations explain it better.

Nick22 · **Reply #65 on:** November 10, 2010, 01:28:20 AM

Having Read the Man in the Iron Mask which is only the final part of the Musketteers mythology, i find I prefer the Count of Monte Cristo to,, for a number of reason. First the man in the Iron Mask (phillipe) is not even the focus of the book, but rather a character who is not seen again after being imprisomnned by the king, his brother..which occurs not even halfway through the book..