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Definitely Not A Cop
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3:12p, 8/17/21
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I'm going to be arbitrary and say my definition of Classical is at least 50 years ago. If you want to argue with me about that, I'm just going to respond that Metallica is being played on classic rock music stations now, so get over it, old man.

What are your favorites? To me, Count of Monte Cristo is incredible, and the language used doesn't feel dated like a lot of books from that time period.
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The Lord of the Rings.
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3:33p, 8/17/21
Of Mice and Men is a book I actually enjoyed reading in school! I also enjoyed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Count of Monte Cristo is also the first book I thought of. I really enjoyed The Great Gatsby as well.
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I try to mix in a few classics, so far my favorite not listed is East of Eden.
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I tend to love old school action/adventure/sci fi books, so a few of my favs:

  • A Princess of Mars/Gods of Mars/Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • She by H Rider Haggard
  • King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • The Odyssey by Homer
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4:02p, 8/17/21
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How about 200 years old? Austen's Pride and Prejudice. So far ahead of it's time, it's still relevant today.
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I liked Shogun, quite a bit. Tai Pei is good too.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Les Miserables

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Dune
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The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
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Brave New World
1984



Too bad those are turning out to be documentaries...
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The Grapes of Wrath was a book I enjoyed in school (20+ years ago...geez). Haven't read it since though.
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In reply to Definitely Not A Cop • 4:45p, 8/17/21
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This begins and ends with Count of Monte Cristo, if there were ever a badass classic literary character it's Edmond Dantes. The dude goes from political prisoner forgotten by the world to the Count, a prime mover in 19th century Europe. He caused boom markets and crashed markets, bought banks, dug up hidden family trees, used complex aliases and alter egos, unraveled royal court conspiracies, used the complex of Parisian nobility and did them all towards a single end. That being a complete and thorough revenge for the ages.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
This book got me into reading in HS. Before that book, I thought reading was super lame
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In reply to AgTrip • 4:48p, 8/17/21
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AgTrip said:
Of Mice and Men is a book I actually enjoyed reading in school! I also enjoyed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
I heard they can't read Huck Finn in school anymore. Is that true?

ETA: A great novel/adventure story in any case.
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AgTrip
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In reply to AggieArchitect04 • 5:34p, 8/17/21
AggieArchitect04 said:
AgTrip said:
Of Mice and Men is a book I actually enjoyed reading in school! I also enjoyed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
I heard they can't read Huck Finn in school anymore. Is that true?

ETA: A great novel/adventure story in any case.


I'm old...so no idea what they can read these days in school.
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Dune
The Lord of the Rings
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dracula
Frankenstein
Chronicles of Narnia, particularly The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe but I enjoyed the entire series
A Farewell to Arms
The Sun Also Rises
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Bruce Almighty
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The Aubrey-Maturin series
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The Forever War
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In reply to jeffk • 6:32p, 8/17/21
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jeffk said:
The Forever War


By the op's definition, it's not a classic for 3 more years.
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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 7:09p, 8/17/21
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Get over it, old man.
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Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Where the Red Fern Grows
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In reply to jeffk • 7:40p, 8/17/21
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jeffk said:
Get over it, old man.


Lol, that book is older than I am.
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The Yearling
The Hobbit
The Black Stallion
Call of the Wild
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 8:17p, 8/17/21
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Ok, Boomer.
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I read War and Peace in a week and thought it was amazing.
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For whom the bell tolls
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Sex Panther
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Animal Farm

The relevancy today is scary
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Anything by Mark Twain especially The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Once and Future King & The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Nineteen Eighty-Four & Animal Farm by George Orwell
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man & Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Killer Angels by by Michael Shaara
All Quiet on the Western Front by by Erich Maria
Silence by Shusaku Endo
The Power and the Glory & The Quiet American by Graham Greene
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
My Antonia & Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Great American Novel by Phillip Roth
The Southpaw & Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
Stranger in a Strange Land & The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Childhood's End & Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
The Foundation Series & Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Time Machine & War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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BrAm Stokers Dracula
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In reply to jkag89 • 8:48a, 8/18/21
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Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
How this never actually made it onto the big screen is beyond me.

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Bruce Almighty
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 9:04a, 8/18/21
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Fat Bib Fortuna said:
jkag89 said:
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
How this never actually made it onto the big screen is beyond me.



It's better than 2001.
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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 9:31a, 8/18/21
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Excellent series. In my top sci-fi along with Forever War and Footfall.
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