Sadly, I didn't read a lot of the classics while in school. So now I'm trying to catch up and read as many as I can. So my question to all of you is what your favorite classics are and why?
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë is my favourite book of all time. A very strong female character, love story, a madwoman in an attic...
I'm also currently reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and it is something I would recommend. But it is pretty painful a read - not because it's complicated, so much as because it's hard to wrap your mind around some of the concepts. It all just seems so .... alien. It's set in the future, though it was written in the 1930's. It's messed. It is seriously, seriously messed. But I still think it's worth a read, if you're feeling brave.
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I'm also currently reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and it is something I would recommend. But it is pretty painful a read - not because it's complicated, so much as because it's hard to wrap your mind around some of the concepts. It all just seems so .... alien. It's set in the future, though it was written in the 1930's. It's messed. It is seriously, seriously messed. But I still think it's worth a read, if you're feeling brave.
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Seconded.
And for something completely different from Jane Eyre, I love Moby Dick.