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maximus55669
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Location: Hogwarts
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 Posted: January 25, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject: Required to read: The best classics or classics to be |
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ok, i know there is a thread for the greatest english novels and i didn't know if that includes translated works, so i'll post some of my favs and feel free to add on or comment on already posted material or play to my vanity and agree with me 
classic
The picture of Dorian Gray
The Count of Monte Cristo
Generally Jules Verne
Generally Edgar Allen Poe
gulivers travels
the three musketeers
An American Tragedy (one of my all time favs)
The hunchback of Notre Dame
Inferno
Jack the Ripper
the Brothers Grim
Hans christian Anderson
Modern
Harry Potter
Inheritence trilogy
The Historian
General Dan Brown
The books of Pellinor
The Bartemeus Trilogy
Monster Blood Tatoo Series
this is off the top of my head of books/series in my room, i have over a hundred books easy so i'll post some more as time goes on.
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FWFreedomfighter
Joined: Dec 23, 2007
Location: The Magic City
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I've read a few of the Classic ones and a couple of the Modern ones. I have like 100 or so books too, they're everywhere in my room right now.
I'd have to say some of my favs are,...
Black Beauty
Misty of Chincoteage
Stormy, Misty's Fowl (by Marguerite Henry)
and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and the Great Glass Elevator.
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Bianca St. Claire
Joined: Nov 30, 2007
Location: USA
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| Posted: January 30, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Dracula
Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights
H.P. Lovecraft's works - for adding so much to the horror genre, he seems to get forgotten a lot
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LedZeppelin123
Joined: Feb 10, 2008
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dontsayiquit
Joined: Aug 12, 2007
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| Posted: May 19, 2008 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Classics:
Anything by Steinback, Bradbury, Huxley, Orwell, Fitzgerald, or Voltaire. Of course there's more but those are some of the best.
Contemporary:
JK Rowling, Chuck Klosterman, Richard Dawkins, and Irvine Welsh.
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AngelPotter20
Joined: May 28, 2007
Location: Heading to the dungeon for detention with Snape *wink*
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I have read a lot over the years..
Steinbeck
William Shakespeare(pretty much all of his work.)
Washington Irving(Sleepy Hollow)
Edgar Allen Poe
Emily Bronte(Wuthering Heights) although in high school I did not appreciate it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jerome Salinger(Catcher in the Rye)
Lois Lowry(The Giver) weird book but it was good.
J.K. Rowling
Louis Sachar(Holes) haha i loved that book.
That's all I can think of right now in my sleep deprived mind I will put more up when I think of more. Those are in no order.. Just the way I remembered them.
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Squishy
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| Posted: June 11, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Pride and Prejudice definitely |
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