Not as often as I promise myself. Really need to brush up on my Shakespeare. The task is just so daunting when there are many, MANY, new books I have yet to read.
One of my goals last year was to work through Shakespeare’s work. I really enjoyed it, I read all his histories , tragedies and comedies , there’s a few pieces of his work that I’ve still got to read but I’m sure it was about 30 I read.
I loved Great Expectations by Dickens and all of the Jane Austin books. I also loved The Tempest by Shakespeare. I would recommend Fearless Shakespeare, which was recommended to me by a wonderful friend. How Green Was My Vallay, My Antonia, East of Eden are all some of my favorite classics.
I like this question. I was not a reader in school when I might have been assigned some of them, so now they are part of my reading rotation, and I get one at least a few times a year.
Classics are true literature. They were written before movies and tv. They had to explain things better. They didn’t write with film as a possibility. Not to mention they didn’t have word processors or easy editing. They had to think it out before they put the ink on the pad.
Usually once a year in the summer. Read Gone With the Wind, Jane Eyre and Huckleberry Finn the last 3 years. Thinking of another Dickens this summer, either Bleak House or Tale of Two Cities.
I used to, when I lived in several European countries, where their ‘classics’ were different. Not so often now that I’m back in the US…in fact, I just realized that I now read more of ‘theirs’. Someone should write a treatise about classic books and the feeling of home!
It depends on my mood – I have to keep up with the classics for my job, so I would say at least one a year… but I’ve already read quite a lot when I was a student, so I feel like reading more modern things, just for me (it is not as selfish as it sounds… it’s just that most of my reading end up as a lesson!!!)
(Given that I am kind of a reading nerd and I read about 15 books a month) l read 2 classics a month. In April I read the idiot by Dostoevsky and I am currently Reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In between Classics I always need something “lighter” to read or at least written in a more Contemporary Language. I absolutely love the classics ?
Not often enough! I recently listened to “Great Expectations” as none of the books I wanted to read were available. Such a great story! Such a difference to read/listen to for pleasure rather than reading in preparation for quizzes, tests, and essays.
I’ve started to read 1 or 2 classic books per month.
Not as often as I promise myself. Really need to brush up on my Shakespeare. The task is just so daunting when there are many, MANY, new books I have yet to read.
One of my goals last year was to work through Shakespeare’s work. I really enjoyed it, I read all his histories , tragedies and comedies , there’s a few pieces of his work that I’ve still got to read but I’m sure it was about 30 I read.
Several each month – I think it was 8 last month, I usual try and read 1 or 2 classics and then something lighter.
You read much faster than me.
@Steve a few were relatively short that month but I read about 15 a month and half are normally classics
For the last five years, I’ve read 90% classics.
My reading goal this year is at least one classic per month. I’m reading Beloved this month and loving it.
My goal this year is at least one classic per quarter or season.
I read my first a week or so ago. The Count of Mont Cristo.
I have read a bunch starting when I was about 12, so plenty of years of schooling ahead of me where classics were standard.
Most are mind numbingly boring. So I start zero a year.???
Usually one a year. Read War and Peace last year.
Frequently- they feature prominently on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, and I’m less than 400 in!
I loved Great Expectations by Dickens and all of the Jane Austin books. I also loved The Tempest by Shakespeare. I would recommend Fearless Shakespeare, which was recommended to me by a wonderful friend. How Green Was My Vallay, My Antonia, East of Eden are all some of my favorite classics.
Usually have one going among the stuff I’m reading.
As often as possible.
I like this question. I was not a reader in school when I might have been assigned some of them, so now they are part of my reading rotation, and I get one at least a few times a year.
My New Year’s resolution was to have one of the dozen or more books I read simultaneously be a classic. After all, why not?!
Classics are true literature. They were written before movies and tv. They had to explain things better. They didn’t write with film as a possibility.
Not to mention they didn’t have word processors or easy editing. They had to think it out before they put the ink on the pad.
Trying to read one a month or more
Classics are my favorite. I’m always reading one. I go between classics and horror or fantasy.
Mmm…classics, true life, and ya/children’s!
Usually once a year in the summer. Read Gone With the Wind, Jane Eyre and Huckleberry Finn the last 3 years. Thinking of another Dickens this summer, either Bleak House or Tale of Two Cities.
I try to read 1-2 per year
I don’t, really. The ones I’ve read haven’t done much for me and I’m not going to force myself to read something that doesn’t appeal to me.
I used to, when I lived in several European countries, where their ‘classics’ were different. Not so often now that I’m back in the US…in fact, I just realized that I now read more of ‘theirs’. Someone should write a treatise about classic books and the feeling of home!
It depends on my mood – I have to keep up with the classics for my job, so I would say at least one a year… but I’ve already read quite a lot when I was a student, so I feel like reading more modern things, just for me (it is not as selfish as it sounds… it’s just that most of my reading end up as a lesson!!!)
(Given that I am kind of a reading nerd and I read about 15 books a month) l read 2 classics a month. In April I read the idiot by Dostoevsky and I am currently Reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In between Classics I always need something “lighter” to read or at least written in a more Contemporary Language. I absolutely love the classics ?
The language in the classics is what keeps me on my toes. I love the challenge.
@Meriem, I’m intrigued by your first name. Is there a story there?
actually it means “miss” in German ?
@Meriem, danke. Lol
Same as Nydia. I am reading Jane Eyre and Sense & Sensibility.
4 or 5 –
Not often enough! I recently listened to “Great Expectations” as none of the books I wanted to read were available. Such a great story! Such a difference to read/listen to for pleasure rather than reading in preparation for quizzes, tests, and essays.
Right now I’m on a Theodore Dreiser kick.
Often