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Listopia > Why Are These "Classics"?
A list for those timeworn books that seem to be on a pedestal ... but why?? They just don't live up to their reputations.
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,962,684 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Of Mice and Men
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The Crucible
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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The Pearl
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Silas Marner
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1984
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Earth Abides
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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Brave New World
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Lord of the Flies
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Old Yeller
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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Rayuela
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Bridge to Terabithia
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El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
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3.91 avg rating — 307,411 ratings
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25 voters ·
list created February 23rd, 2011
by Carla JFCL (votes) .
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Mar 30, 2014 07:21PM
Don Quijote is the spanish languaje masterpiece. It is beautifull because of the languaje use. Obviously, it's a very stupid thing to read it in other languaje and trying to get the beauty of the text. It's like reading Shakespeare on japanese and saying it is overrated. I'm a spanish speaker and it is my favourite book. When you read Don Quijote, You feel like he's your best friend, you love the character, and you cry when he dies. I'm just saying, the Cervante's style its something unique in our languaje. And Personally 1984 it's one of my favourite ones. It's a little bit hard to read in the first chapter, but then, it is all emotions!. I just falled in love with Julia, and screamed on pain internally when Winston says the rats thing. Now i want to read it in the original languaje (because the first time i ever read 1984 was on spanish. Just my opinion, oh, and sorry for my bad english
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This is the reason I, at least, only added books written in my native language.
It is ok to read translated books, but only when the good thing of the book is the story. When it uses a beautifull languaje like poetry or that kind of stuff, it is better to read your own languaje C:
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