<p>I have a choice to read any classic book for my English class. Does anyone have any suggestions on a book I should read??</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice!!!</p>
<p>I guess it depends on your interpretation of classic...but I think everyone should read Crime and Punishment at least once.</p>
<p>Dracula by Bram Stoker. I loved it <3</p>
<p>Classic = Anything deemed of literary quality and read by the masses years and years after it was released. </p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange</p>
<p>a room with a view by e.m. forster</p>
<p>uh...Lolita isn't apropriate for school right?</p>
<p>It depends on the school though I can see where you'd get the frowns. </p>
<p>Choose something less controversial if you're so worried. </p>
<p>Why Lolita anyway?</p>
<p>Depends on the school. My English teacher recommended Lolita to read, but the IB curriculum wouldn't allow us to do it. I haven't read it yet, but I should be starting it next week.</p>
<p>i think lolita is a fabulous book but unfortunately it does depend on the school. however, that doesnt mean you cant read it on your own time!</p>
<p>The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov</p>
<p>A Russian classic</p>
<p>Classic = Anything deemed of literary quality and read by the masses years and years after it was released.</p>
<p>Lies. Everybody knows that if something is read by the masses, it is automatically crap. The best book is the one that no one has ever read.</p>
<p>I'm not talking about crap fiction like Danielle Steel. </p>
<p>(I don't care about what people read and lets not debate popular works that are crafted predictably and consumed out of guilty pleasure versus 'classics' because after all, they serve entirely different purposes and one shouldn't bother comparing something that is deemed 'intellectual' versus something used for entertainment though the terms are not exclusive.) </p>
<p>Why are students still reading Beowulf? It has to have some sort of merits doesn't it? </p>
<p>The best book is the most obscure book? Honestly, if people are still talking about a book hundreds of years after it's released, then obviously it has something that everyone agrees upon but of course this doesn't mean that the obscure book is any less nor does it mean that any mainstream age-old book is the best thing (we all have our opinions). </p>
<p>So give me your definition, cheez doodles.</p>
<p>However, I should have defined the term 'masses' - I was referring to books such as Catcher and Gatsby that everybody and everybody's mother has read in high-school. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Is that wind I hear, or do my ears deceive me? ;)</p>
<p>I second A Clockwork Orange. Also, Catch-22, The Stranger and Candide.</p>
<p>Fine. No one cares. :(</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment.</p>
<p>On a more serious note, Sherwood Anderson's short story collection Winesburg, Ohio makes for a fairly sexy read.</p>
<p>I agree! Pride and Prejudice is classical like works of shakespeare, i love Jane Austine.. even though Pride and Prejudice is the only book of hers that i have read.</p>
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<li>Slaughterhouse 5. Cat's Cradle.</li>
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