Hello! Just wanted to stop by and wish you a Happy Bloggers Love-In Day. :-)

I have read 22...and plan to stop there. I hated most of them (this coming from someone who loves to read). Most I read for classes, though there are several that I've read on my own for fun. I might make it to 23 on the list, because I do want to read Candide.

Can I just say that The Awakening is the WORST. BOOK. EVER. It sucked. Never ever read that book...if its assigned in class, buy the cliff's notes...trust me on this (note: never used cliff's notes, but I do know that they're about the same length as this awful piece of "literature.")

I'll post the ones I read and liked:
Beowulf
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Canterbury Tales
A Doll's House
Hamlet
Macbeth
The Three Musketeers

Ones I've read and hated:
The Awakening
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
The Metamorphosis
Animal Farm
Romeo and Juliet
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I've read some others in there, but I was indifferent in opinion towards those. I recommend the first list, I suggest staying as far away as you can from the second list.

I think I'm going to copy this list and post it in the Lounge to see how that group stacks up. I have to admit to not having read a lot of these myself.

Ones I read and liked:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky-- Crime and Punishment

Chaucer-- The Canterbury Tales

Ones I read and hated:
ALL the rest.

I agree, The Awakening isn't exactly scintillating. The ones I like on the list are the weird ones like Waiting for Godot, Heart of Darkness, and The Turn of the Screw. Some of them, I would probably eliminate from the list and add something else--like Pygmalion which is basically My Fair Lady without the music.

Does watching the movies count?? LOL!!
(lemme see if I can remember how to bold lol)
Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son

One that I think needs to be added...

Roots (can't remember who wrote it)

Alex Haley wrote Roots.

I have an exam for English class Friday; "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and Oedipus Rex will be on it.

Honestly, I think there are a few more books, epic poems, short stories, and plays that should be added to this list, too. It claims to be a classic list but they seem more like stuff read in school.

All Quiet on the Western Front is required reading for the modern German history class at my school. I want to take that class but I don't know how I might be able to read this book. I think we all remember how the movie tore me apart.

no, no.. it's "A Hard Man is Good to Find"

Evil, evil Misbah!

Make mental note - must find devil horned smilie.

With all that talk about Oedipus (and all your psych stuff), hope you don't slip, (Freudian) and write "A Hard Man is Good to Find" somewhere in your essay.

Now THAT would be something!

i'm off to the gym where my trainer will be pleased to learn that I am gonna be here for another 4 years. oh by the way, check out how my olympic xanga looks now!

*snicker* Good one Misbah... And you notice Shawn, I was being good!! Hehehe but yes, you need a little devil smilie with us 2 around!

yeah Trish being good is shocking! I was so sure she would beat me to it. One of us had to be evil though ... so yeah, get crackin'... go find that horny devil... er, i mean HORNED devil smiley...

I should whip the both of you!

We might like it... *snicker*

Trish, you'd like it if it was like this: .