Classics that are, or aren´t, a good read

Edgar, my daughter read Pygmalion last semester and enjoyed it. She also loved Tale of Two Cities and A Separate Peace

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JPB wrote:

Edgar, my daughter read Pygmalion last semester and enjoyed it. She also loved Tale of Two Cities and A Separate Peace

I have never read "A Seperate Peace."

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John Knowles -- I had to read it in school too and enjoyed it.

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I've read a book, perhaps two. I wasn't impressed.

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I read A Separate Peace a long time ago, sorry, just one more book. I don't remember disagreeing with whatever was the premise. I'd have to re-look at it to see what I think now. I didn't have a Classic bell chime at the time.

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Not sure what defines a classic exactly. Stands the test of time? Assigned to school kids as literature? dunno.

A Separate Peace and Lord of the Flies are two that would qualify as modern classics, I guess.

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Lord of the Flies is another of my favorite books.

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dyslexia wrote:

I've read a book, perhaps two. I wasn't impressed.

Dys, You should have persisted after 'Care & Maintainence of your John Deere Model R Tractor' - the books for the 80, 820 and 830 really built on the characters.

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I trust you're kidding, Hinge.. Dys read Plato as a child. (Beg pardon if you were teasing.)

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I too had play dough.

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I didn't and perhaps you can tell..

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Some classics are so rarely mentioned, I wonder how classic they truly are. The Cloister and the Hearth is one I mildly enjoyed. Never see it mentioned on any threads.

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I admit to never hearing of it, Eb.

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I can almost guess, but no, I'll wait for the revelation.

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ossobuco wrote:

I admit to never hearing of it, Eb.

Love unfulfilled, between a woman and a man of the cloth.

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Gads, I might even have read it. Must google..

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Probably thinking of the Nun's Story (kidding, I know it isn't the same) as that was a book that mattered to me at the time.

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Wiki on Cloister/Hearth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth
Osso looks for snack recipes...

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ossobuco wrote:

I trust you're kidding, Hinge.. Dys read Plato as a child. (Beg pardon if you were teasing.)

Pardon freely given - excuse my antipodean sense of the ridiculous. And besides the stuff Plato wrote as child wasn't very challenging.

Yes, I'm being silly again. I just can get the hang of this internet thingy, i need a, a, a, whatchacallit - emoticon!!!

:wink: ta-daah....

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I read today that a british dept store has just pulled the 'Lolita' line of children's mattress from its shelves after complaints from mothers. A store spokesman said something like 'We didn't know what they were talking about - we had to look it up.'

Poor store manager made to look a fool by nabakov-reading parents.

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