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re: Classics - what to read?
Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:23 am to When in Rome
Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:23 am to When in Rome
Has anyone ever read Treasure Island? I just finished a rewatch of Black Sails and I'm interested.
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Posted on 5/7/21 at 6:24 pm to theGarnetWay
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Has anyone ever read Treasure Island?
I read it years ago - my teenage sons just read it - they said it was ‘ok’ - the older of the two preferred 20,000 leagues under the sea
Posted on 5/8/21 at 9:58 am to crazy4lsu
Ayn Rand probably posts on the OT
Posted on 5/8/21 at 10:43 am to S
Posted on 5/8/21 at 7:01 pm to theGarnetWay
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Has anyone ever read Treasure Island? I
Was required reading in high school. I tapped out after halfway. Just a chore to me.
Posted on 5/8/21 at 10:15 pm to When in Rome
I went through this phase and it was really good.
One of my favorites is Pride and Prejudice.
However, based on your OP, I would suggest Dickens. Oliver Twist was more fun than Tale of Two Cities, but I love them both. I never did get around to reading Copperfield, but I need to.
And then there is Carol and Expectations, but I've seen the movies and don't know if I want to invest in the novels.
One of my favorites is Pride and Prejudice.
However, based on your OP, I would suggest Dickens. Oliver Twist was more fun than Tale of Two Cities, but I love them both. I never did get around to reading Copperfield, but I need to.
And then there is Carol and Expectations, but I've seen the movies and don't know if I want to invest in the novels.
Posted on 5/10/21 at 10:14 am to biglego
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Has anyone ever read Treasure Island?
I read this book, Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, Captains Courageous, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea around 10 or 11. I really enjoyed all of these books at that age.
Posted on 5/16/21 at 7:56 am to When in Rome
The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas’ tale is such methodical account in revenge that you become engrossed in it. It’s one of my all-time favorites.
Posted on 5/16/21 at 12:48 pm to When in Rome
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The Brothers Karamazov
Great choice one of my all time favorites
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Don Quixote
As I Lay Dying and Absalom! Absalom!
Count of Monte Cristo and Three Musketeers
The Lord of the Rings
Lolita
Catch-22
Inferno. Actualy just read all three.
Moby Dick
The Secret Agent
The Sun Also Rises
Posted on 5/20/21 at 4:40 am to When in Rome
Just finished Frankenstein. Was pleasantly surprised.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 4:41 am to theGarnetWay
Audible has a good cast reading of Treasure Island
Posted on 5/20/21 at 12:51 pm to When in Rome
It's really a crapshoot. So many classics are so very different for different tastes. Based on your taste, though, I'd throw out A Tale of Two Cities. And I find most Dickens to be dreadfully dull.
As for more American fare: Moby Dick, and Faulkner of course: Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury are my recs.
As for more American fare: Moby Dick, and Faulkner of course: Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury are my recs.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 10:52 pm to When in Rome
Treasure Island is one of my all time favorite books. The Captain’s meeting with Long John on the island is one of my favorite scenes ever.
This post was edited on 6/3/21 at 10:54 pm
Posted on 6/4/21 at 1:01 am to When in Rome
East of Eden
Posted on 6/13/21 at 3:16 pm to When in Rome
Confessions by St. Augustine. Written in the fifth century as the first auto biography. Pretty amazing read if you find a good translation (wordonfire.org). Amazing how much of the human condition remains in the same state.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 3:35 pm to theGarnetWay
I read Treasure Island as a youngling then again in high school so it’s been awhile. I remember it being a fun adventure novel with some great memorable characters.
I’d imagine now most of us have consumed pirate-based media at some point, perhaps Pirates of the Caribbean most notably in modern times. Various works like that & countless others take influence from the original Stevenson novel, and much of what we think of old time pirates to be is based on the book. For that reason, it may seem a bit dated or derivative, when in fact it was inspirational and ahead of its time. Definitely worth a read though.
I’d imagine now most of us have consumed pirate-based media at some point, perhaps Pirates of the Caribbean most notably in modern times. Various works like that & countless others take influence from the original Stevenson novel, and much of what we think of old time pirates to be is based on the book. For that reason, it may seem a bit dated or derivative, when in fact it was inspirational and ahead of its time. Definitely worth a read though.
Posted on 6/19/21 at 12:14 am to When in Rome
A good short book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
His others are good, but very lengthy. Gulag Archipelago is pretty good if one is persistent.
On biographies, I am currently enjoying Cobb, the biography of baseball legend Ty Cobb, by Al Stump.
His others are good, but very lengthy. Gulag Archipelago is pretty good if one is persistent.
On biographies, I am currently enjoying Cobb, the biography of baseball legend Ty Cobb, by Al Stump.
Posted on 7/8/21 at 5:09 pm to rjokerlsu
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 10, 1912
Posted on 7/29/21 at 11:14 pm to When in Rome
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