Favorite piece of classical literature?

Do any of you have a favorite classical novel?

War and Peace is the only thing I've read so by default its my favorite (and it was very good of course).

I should probably give it a reread. I haven't in a long time.

Yours?

@fallschirmjager: Oh, I forgot to post mine.

Mine's Lolita. I know it's not exactly high-brow, but I loved the hell out of it in high school.

Not quite a novel, but I'm reading The Illustrated Man right now and think it's very good.

Lolita.

@squares: Never heard of it. Sounds interesting after a quick google.

Unfortunately I don't read many books anymore.

Damn video games :3

The Time of the Hero

The Catcher in the Rye

Not really sure what my favorite is, but The Once and Future King by T. H. White is definitely up there.

Anything by Ernest Hemingway.

Lord of the Flies

For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Tempest.

King Henry IV Part 1 and Romeo & Juliet.

I don't like books written before 1950...but, I guess Pride and Prejudice was a good read.

What do you like about it specifically?

There is some many great novels and choosing one from them it's not the simplest choice. But for myself at the moment I would pick The Spire and Pincher Martin by William Golding. They are so beautifully written, an art of word and thought, and just a pleasure for your eyes.

@farkam: The phrasing, the word play, the prose in general. That is literally the only aspect of the book I like- the characters are...well, they're almost universally contemptible, and the plot is good but it twists and turns and, when it really comes down to it, is nothing special.

East of Eden.

@jphu8414: @spitfirepanda: @thatguywithheadphones: @14nc3: @doomdoomdoom: @spideyivydaredevilfan26: @kharms: @the_tree: @fallschirmjager: I'm impressed, those are all good choices.

Why not?

@squares: Thanks I transitioned from your mainstream FPS type games to strategy games as a teenager and as a result got huge into history/warfare so War and Peace was a natural read for me.

Been years since I read it now though. Like I said I should do it again.

If you really wana go classic, I always wanted to read Commentarii de Bello Gallico by Julius Caeser, but to my understanding its best read in Latin and I don't read latin lol. So I never have.

A Light in the Attic, By Shel Silverstein

@squares: Lots use olde English dialects and turn a phrases. Don't feel like deciphering it.

Revenge of the Busty Babes!

Ha, no. It's probably the Art of War by Sun Tzu.

The Time Machine.

That's not a novel....also, I prefer Where the Sidewalk Ends

To Kill a Mocking Bird and In Cold Blood.

The Brothers Karamazov

The Dialogue of plato

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

@squares: War and Peace, All Quiet on the Western Front, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Thin Red Line, Of Mice and Men, Bram Stoker's Dracula...

There's clearly a pattern, then there's Of Mice and Men and Dracula. Hey, a guy can be diverse right?

Moby Dick....

The Seawolf by Jack London is an amazing read, War of the Worlds, Journey to the Center of the Earth, "The Most Dangerous Game" short story, as well as the "Seventh Room"?, something about people going to a castle to avoid the bubonic plague in the Middle Ages. I really have too many to tell lol, another honorable mention, although crass at times, is the Canterbury Tales.

Riddle in the Sands wasn't that bad...

Nobody else said The Three Musketeers?

I liked Wuthering Heights a surprising amount, its just filled with bitterness LOL.

War of the Worlds held up pretty well.

How old are we going? I like Animal Farm a lot.

I like some of the Shakespeare plays

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I read a lot of these types of books during my early 20s but I'm much more lazy now and just tend to stream TV adaptations, out of the TV adaptations I really liked Tale of Two Cities, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gulliver's Travells, really should try to read the books.

I have always quite liked Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Probably Lord of The Flies, To Kill A Mockingbird or The Brothers Karamazov. Truly intriguing and complex stories to say the least.

Catcher in the Rye.

On the Road.

Moby dick

I don't know if it counts as classic, but I love A Clockwork Orange. It's short and I've read it four or five times.

@kcjr: I say it totally counts, and it's a great book.

• Lord of the Flies
• Les Miserables
• Catcher in the Rye

To Kill A Mockingbird and Frankenstein.

I have to read more classics though.

War and Peace

A Tale of Two Cities

A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

The Hound of the Baskervilles.

In that order.

The Death of a Salesmen .

Great Expectations

50 shades of Grey hehe : P

Scarlet Letter, Hamlet, Odyssey, To the Lighthouse, Black Beauty

Tale Tell Heart

The Pit and the Pendulum and The monkey's paw.

@shanana: Emo ! *throws crumbled up paper at*

: P

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

If it counts...and I must insist that it does :P