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[Alea]

I'm from Sweden to :D The westcost though

[kwesi 章英狮]

Hi B-Young and Elin, welcome to the group and I'm glad you two are interested in reading classics. I suggest you two have to join the group read for this month. Talking about Pride and Prejudice, I did not like the book but I love Emma and Northanger Abbey. I'll try to reread that soon.

[Heather]

Im also working on Wuthering Heights! I am Heather, I am American but living in Greece with my Greek husband and daughter. Im really excited to be part of a book club, even if only virtually, as Ive had a hard time setting one up here

[[deleted user]]

Welcome to all the newbies...I sure hope that you will enjoy this book club and feel free to let us know if there is anything that you would like to see added to the site!!!!

[[deleted user]]

Jill and Kewsi....Congratulations on the Mod positions! I am glad that you were both chosen!! U guys sure do keep it alive in here!!!

I may not be on as much on the group as I will be on our other group due to the fact that I am going back to work full/part time after 4 years!! I have been working weekends for the last year, but now that my baby (6 in 12 days!!) will be going to school full days, I needed to get out of the house!! I loved being a full time mom but after 4 years, I need to get out and have adult time!!!
I will be checking in every once in a while so I am not going to disappear all together...and for those of you that are on the group Can't stop reading you will see me there!!

For all the newbies on here...a lot of us are also on a group called Can't Stop Reading...please come and join there as well!!

Hope you all have a good time reading the Hobbit and To kill a Mockingbird...don't worry I will be posting on those boards!!!

xoxo to all!!

Teri-Lynn

[April Monique]

Thanks :)

[Marylou]

Hi! I'm Marylou.
I'm 55 yrs. and RETIRED!! :)
I read some classics in high school (a few years ago), such as 1984 and Animal Farm, but would really like to get into them now and this sounds like fun!

[Nicolle]

Hiya Marylou (what a lovely name!), you have found the right place to get into classics. We have monthly reads you can join in with and buddy reads. Feel free to make your own personal classics page.

[1verylovedmom]

Thanks Kwesi. I just got back from a mini vacation. My book was waiting for me when I got home. I can't wait to start reading.

[Deborah]

I don't think I ever introduced myself. Haha well I'm Deb and I'm a senior in high school. My school requires a lot of reading so I read classics all the time for school and for fun. My goal for senior year is too read all of Jane Austen's novels. I already read Pride and Prejudice but I got her other 5 major works waiting to be read. :)

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

Welcome to any new members! Glad to see a lot of new faces.

Congrats to Kwesi and Jill for becoming moderators. You are doing a great job!

[Susinok]

Hello all!

I hope ya'll will let me in. I am a huge fan of classic literature, and have read many.

Full disclosure, I have a degree in English Lit, so I've read quite a lot of them, but my list has some huge gaps in it as well.

I leaned a while ago that reading a lot of this literature in your early 20s, like I did in college, is not helpful. You need some living under your belt (Or at least I did) to "get" a lot of it. So now I'm re-reading classics I read in college, and filling in the gaps of things I've missed over the years.

[[deleted user]]

Welcome everyone!!! Glad you are all here!!

[Maleeha]

Susinok wrote: "Hello all!

I hope ya'll will let me in. I am a huge fan of classic literature, and have read many.

Full disclosure, I have a degree in English Lit, so I've read quite a lot of them, but my list ..."

im in uni and i like reading classics =D does that mean itl not be helpfull later on ?? =(

[kwesi 章英狮]

Hi Heather of Wuthering Heights, welcome to the group and sweet reads! Did you like or enjoy reading Wuthering Heights? I'm still in the first four chapters of the book, it was hard to read and the everything was so boring. I think this book will take me a week to finish it.

Hi Marylou and your name sounds so sweet, welcome to the group and feel free to join the group read. Any readable classics you want to recommend for me? I've been suffering of reading too much highfalutin words lately. Haha.

Hi Deb, I read 3 of Jane Austen books already and I hate pride and prejudice and maybe I'll reread it soon. I read it when I was young and did not understand the whole thing. Haha. Good luck and I wish you enjoy reading Emma!

Hi Susinok, is that really your name? Anyway, welcome to the club and we can't wait to read comments and classic-related stuff from a Lit graduate like you. Sweet reads!

Hi Maliha, welcome to the group!

[Apokripos]

Hullo I'm jzhunagev!

I don't know if I'm a newbie or an oldie when it come to classics but I sure do love 'em.
Ernest Hemingway is my all time favorite classic author which goes to show that The Old Man and the Sea is one of my favorite classics books!
While Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite horror/gothic author!

And I love the books that you are currently discussing, The Hobbit and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Hope this group will push me to read more classical works!

Thank you everyone! *big smile*

[Rollie]

Hello Jzhun. :D Have we met before? You seem so funny familiar. :DDDDDD

[kwesi 章英狮]

We will always be the oddest friend Rollie, I agree, that guy above is familiar to me but I never cared to know where I met him. Kidding.

Hi Jzhun, welcome to the group and it seems that you read a lot of classics (I know that at first place). Hey, start writing something in the other thread so that I'll read the book automatically. Doyle is more interesting than your favorites. Kidding.

[Rollie]

Haha. Right Kwesi.

[Apokripos]

Kwesi 章英狮 wrote: "Hi Jzhun, welcome to the group and it seems that you read a lot of classics (I know that at first place). Hey, start writing something in the other thread so that I'll read the book automatically. Doyle is more interesting than your favorites. Kidding. "

I agree! For the long time now I've been wanting to read his Sherlock Holmes books but to no avail; I haven't found an omnibus edition to suit me yet. :(

I'm afraid I haven't met the two of you yet. Sorry.
But I sure do have friends that look kinda like you, though. They're names are Kweski and Roil (and he's always the romantic type in the bunch, dare I say).

Cheers, guys!
Thanks!

[Anna]

Hey! Im Anna from Singapore (small place) and i luv classics and im not really new, but i luv them

[Stephanie]

Hi I'm Stephanie,
Although I've read a few classics in high school, I still consider myself a newbie when it comes to classic books. The first book on my list of books to read is Pride and Prejudice. I'm really looking forward to reading it.

[Rollie]

jzhunagev wrote: "Kwesi 章英狮 wrote: "Hi Jzhun, welcome to the group and it seems that you read a lot of classics (I know that at first place). Hey, start writing something in the other thread so that I'll read the bo..."

Romantic? Yuck. :D

[Jill]

Hi everyone...Thanks for the congrats, and I apologize for the lack of activity. Labor Day was this weekend, so I was out of town. And, Texas is having some weather issues in the form of fires, so I've been preoccupied. I am okay and my family is too, but a lot of people aren't. Scary!

Welcome to all the new people...and Teri-lynn, I'll have the check out the other group!

[Rachel]

Hey! I'm Rachel. I've been reading so much modern fiction lately I thought it was about time I got back into some classics as well! Cannot wait to get stuck in!

[Trish]

Hi all, I'm Trish. I have read several classics but not recently. Not sure how this works so fill me in. Thanks!

[Susan O]

Welcome Rachel and Trish. I'm relatively new here too, but it looks like a great group so far. There are lots of opinions and recommendations on books. There are 2 group reads going on that you can jump in on and lots of people willing to do "buddy reads" if you just want someone to share opinions on. Welcome!

[Dean]

Hi, I'm Dean from the Philippines. I love "The Old Man and The Sea," and I read a bunch of classics two or three years ago when I was in high school.

I'm taking a couple of Lit classes in college and realized I probably didn't really get much of what the books I read were saying back then, so I plan to start reading them again (as soon as I finish this novel I have to analyze for my final paper).

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

Hello to all the new members. We're glad to have you!

[Apokripos]

Dean wrote: "Hi, I'm Dean from the Philippines. I love "The Old Man and The Sea," and I read a bunch of classics two or three years ago when I was in high school."

Yey! For The Old Man and the Sea! Welcome to the group, Dean Koontz!

[Rollie]

Welcome Dean. Another member from Pinas! :)

[[deleted user]]

Welcome all you newbies!! WOW I can't believe how this group is growing!!! Sorry for my absence, but work and kids are keeping me so busy I hardly have time for reading....

[Bazzie1967]

Hi everyone
I recently joined up on the site, hoping to enagage with people and get to know more about what people are reading etc. I live in Reading, in the UK. All my life I have worked with books, having been a Learning Resources Manager and now a Library Manager in a hospital.
Bazzie

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

Welcome aboard Bazzie1967, and any new member I have not welcomed.

[Hermione]

Hi All! I'm Hermione, and I'm from Manhattan. I absolutely LOVE classics, and I just finished The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, which was ABSOLUTELY amazing :) Another favorite is The Scarlet Pimpernel, which I'm pretty sure is considered a classic as well :) Can't wait to contribute!

[[deleted user]]

Welcome Bazzie and Hermoine!!!! Glad that you are here....and to any new member that I have missed!!! Glad to see so many here that enjoy classics!!!!

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

Welcome, Hermione!

[Lily]

Hello ya'll!
I'm Lily and I LOVE reading!(especially classics)My favorites are Little Women, Robinson Crusoe, Jane Eyre, The Secret Garden, and the list goes on and on.

[Charity]

Hi Everyone! I LOVE reading! My have a lot of favorite classics, but the ones that jump right to the front of my mind are: The Scarlet Letter, Of Mice and Men, Dracula, and Moby Dick.

[Charity]

I am looking for some help to compile a list of books. With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 just passing I was a little curious about books. I am looking to compile a list of books that came from OTHER tragedies or wars. I am looking for well known classics here that have become a sign of that time, tragedy, and the people who where there to deal with and survive it. Again I am not looking for 9/11 books I am looking for other times for example: Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, World Wars, Civil War, etc. Can anyone help me?

[Jimmy]

Charity wrote: "I am looking for some help to compile a list of books. With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 just passing I was a little curious about books. I am looking to compile a list of books that came from OTHE..."

Welcome Charity, you could end up with a really long list. One that immediately springs to my mind is The Road Back; every bit as good as All Quiet on the Western Front, but deals specifcally with the aftermath of the Great War. I would be interested in seeing your list once you have compiled it. Are you just limiting it to classics?

[The Pirate Ghost]

Charity wrote: "I am looking for some help to compile a list of books. With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 just passing I was a little curious about books. I am looking to compile a list of books that came from OTHE..."

For more imidieate, current issues, Black Hawk Down To early to call a classic, but I believe this will stand the test of time.

Jimmy is right, you will have a long list. Do you have a thread set up for us to post additions to your list? (if you don't know how to do that, talk to Lady D (PM). It's actualy very easy to do.)

Let me know when your ready and I'll fire off books by name, author, and military ivovlment/war that come to mind as they come to mind.It'll be a lot!

[Bazzie1967]

Good morning everyone and my apologies for not posting a thank you for the welcome. Still new to this! Bazzie

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

Welcome, Lily and Charity.

[Fei Fei]

Charity wrote: "I am looking for some help to compile a list of books. With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 just passing I was a little curious about books. I am looking to compile a list of books that came from OTHE..."

The "lost" generation of writers - Americans based in Paris after the war - could fit. Their stories don't exactly deal with war time/post-war topics but their styles are definitely a sign of their time. I'm thinking of Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's works, and Ernest Hemingway.

[The Pirate Ghost]

Fallensnow wrote: "Charity wrote: "I am looking for some help to compile a list of books. With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 just passing I was a little curious about books. I am looking to compile a list of books tha..."

Great Idea... The Sun Also Rises!

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

I have The Sun Also Rises in my collection. It is to be my first Hemingway attempt.

[The Pirate Ghost]

and I may have chosen the wrong tittle... (but to heck with that, it sounded good!) ... I meant the one about the ambulance driver in italy.. who... ring a bell... Bueller?... Bueller?

Am I close?

[Charity]

Thanks for the interest. I have started a thread called Charity's Classics-written from Tragedy

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

I think that's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hugh.