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What is everyone’s favourite classic book? I need a good meaty New Years read…..;0)

What is everyone’s favourite classic book? I need a good meaty New Years read…..;0)

Carolina #recommend #classics

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Christine

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

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CarolinaQuestion author

The Kings General is very good…by DdM too ;0)

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Renee

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

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Mandy

Rebecca !

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Anna

Exodus by Leon Uris or Gone with the Wind.

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Woogy

Frankenstein or to kill a mockingbird

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Lynda

I would have said Daniel Deronda but having just read A Tale of Two Cities

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Lynda

Sorry – I can’t decide

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Nicky

To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee

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Joel

Bleak House. Or Jane Eyre. Or Ulysses. Yeah, Ulysses.

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Maddy

Rebecca or Jane Eyre 🙂

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Shannon

Stig of the Dump, The Borrowers and Edgar Allan Poe ?

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Lynda

Jude the Obscure

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Audrina

Vanity Fair!! but it’s a long one xx

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Melanie

The count of monte Christo – 1,000 pages of awesome 🙂

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Jenny

How about an Edith Wharton house of mirth,or age of innocence or if you like short stories tales of old new York. Each one a masterpiece.

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Jennifer

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.

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Caroline

Dracula or woman in white. Both amazing books

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Abbi

Dracula by bram Stoker, a Christmas carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontee

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Lyn

Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities, riveting. In fact most Dickens are, and stand alone gems.

But I have recently discovered the Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope and they are a real delight. Sagas of a community, one book after the other as we are introduced to new characters and old favourites reappear. I can’t recommend the series enough. Start with the Warden – all are good but my favourite was the final one in the series.

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Corinne

Middlemarch

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Nyla

It’s a tie — Little Women and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Both are wonderful books.

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Yvonne

Wuthering Heights…can’t beat it x

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Mary

To kill a mockingbird.

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Karen

Great Expectations

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Jule

@Mary, I love “to kill a mockingbird”, but I think, @Karen has made even a better choice.

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Farnoush

Les Miserables. I read it a few times.

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Mary

Lets face it – they are all classics for a reason – they are all sooooo good.

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Steven

‘Grapes of Wrath,’ Steinbeck, Amazes me every time.

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Mary

I have tea ‘Grapes’ several times and love it.

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Lyn

So Carrie – what’s it to be?

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Anna

haha I like that it has to be ‘meaty’ 😛
probably The White Tiger from Adiga

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Suzanne

I am with you on To Kill a Mockingbird and chimes with some of the latest killings of black men by white cops. Plus ca change.

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Nicole

Midnights Children by Salmon Rushdie; pure genius

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Renee

Recently I’ve started “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe (I’m ashamed to say I haven’t finished it), and have finished “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad (tedious but so evocative) and “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw (great, especially if you’re a grammar nerd like me!).

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Joel

If you think “Heart of Darkness” is tedious steer well clear of Apocalypse Now, which turned a 100 page novel into a nearly 3 hour film…..

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Renee

I like the story behind it (there’s a documentary)…but didn’t dig the film, besides of course Brando being his crazy self.

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Joel

Oh yes – it was “cursed”, wasn’t it?

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Joel

Does a “classic” have to be a certain age? Can modern literary fiction qualify, like Infinite Jest?

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Melanie

For our classic fiction book club we say nothing published after 1959 – that’s just a line in the sand though really and we would definitely let something through from the 60s if we wanted to read it. I think some time has to have passed before something can be called ‘classic’. How much time is open to interpretation.

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Rita

Gone With the Wind or To Kill a Mockingbird. “Tale of Two Cities”

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Donna

Crime and Punishment. Keeping up with everyone’s names is a challenge!

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Christine

My top 3 books ever all classics thakereys vanity fair, george elliots middlemarch and less well known south riding winifred holtby. All meaty reads.

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Laurie

I loved A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens.

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Jess

To Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite classic, and also The Diary of a Young Girl if that is considered one. 🙂

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Laura

1984, George Orwell! The original dystopian novel, haha x

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