Books!!! Gothic! Romance! Drama!!!

[Dr.Franken-Stein]

Hey hey. So, it's summer, and I don't want my head to go dead (haha...rhymed...) so I want to know about everyone's favorite classical books!!! No, I'm not some literature snob who won't read today's books cause I'm old fashioned or some crap like that. I mean seriously, I'm 17. I just want to know about the classics cause it's a lot harder to find the really good classical stuff compared to the stuff right now. I grew up with this modern stuff, so it's not hard to find. So with that out of the way, I am looking for the best Gothic, Romance, Drama, Supernatural, etc. novels you know about. By all means list your favorites and be as biased as you want. I am also looking for the "poetic" stuff like The Illad and stuff from Virgil, Homer, Dante, etc. So it would be great to hear what floats everyone's boats!

[Forgotten Show]

Edit: Nevermind, failure on my part to read the whole opening post.


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[sa5m]

I generally don't like books from the literary canon. However, there are some that stand out for me. These are the classics that are in my list of favorite books.

-A Tale of Two Cities. by Charles Dickens
-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
-1984 by George Orwell
-The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (yes, I actually like this >.<)
-The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

*will edit if I think of more*

[Cobra Commander]

I second 1984. That's a great book.

I don't have much in the way of classics. A Tale of Two Cities is a great story, but I can't stand Dickens' writing style.

Paradise Lost might be a good choice.

[Haoie]

Fav classic is the Count of Monte Cristo.

[SigmaSD]

Hmmm... *thinks*
-Of Mice and Men.
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. (movie has Jack Nicholson, lol)
-The Importance of Being Earnest. (short but funny).
-Lord of the Flies.
-The Tell-tale Heart.
-Six Characters in Search of an Author. (a bit weird, but good)
-Metamorphosis
-The Death of Ivan Illyich


If you want to read something a more older then check out:
-The Odyssey
-Oedipus Rex
-Gilgamesh

[Velvet_Nightmare]

Fav classic is the Count of Monte Cristo.

Loved that one. Also:

Phantom of the Opera
The Divine Comedy
The Art of War

[_Freddie_]

Gothic, Romance, Drama = Ethan Frome.

Not my kind of book, but it was well written.

[Forgotten Show]

The Art of War

As in, Sun Tzu?


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[Manhattan_Project_2000]

As in, Sun Tzu?


Bad Memory

Machiavelli is another option, I guess.

[Forgotten Show]

Also an option, yes. but I don't see how either those would fall into the "Gothic, Romance, Drama, Supernatural, etc." parameters of the OP's request. Maybe I'm just uncreative right now.


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[sa5m]

Also an option, yes. but I don't see how either those would fall into the "Gothic, Romance, Drama, Supernatural, etc." parameters of the OP's request. Maybe I'm just uncreative right now.


Bad Memory

Falls under "etc."?

[wolfgirl90]

Let's see...

The Divine Comedy-Dante Alighieri
The Masque of the Red Death-Edgar Allan Poe
Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad
Hamlet-William Shakespeare
Othello-William Shakespeare
The Hunchback of Notre Dame-Victor Hugo
Animal Farm-George Orwell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-Lewis Caroll
Venus in Furs-Leopold van Sacher-Masoch (the term "masochism" comes from the author's name...tells you a little about the book doesn't it?)

[Eris]

Wait a moment! I've seen this thread before! What is this? Some sort of alien CIA conspiracy to repeat history?

[Black Ace]

Hamlet , Phantom of the opera, and 1984 are my choices.


(Edit) P.S: Romeo and Juliet is one of my fave romance books too.

[Barcode.]

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

[Knightmare]

Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
Dracula-Bram Stoker
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Picture Of Dorian Grey-Oscar Wilde
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu(Vampire book about a female Vampire Predates Dracula)

With That lot you cant go wrong there all especially good Gothic Novels and some of my favorites, also matbe check out Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde its supposed to be good but I haven't read it myself.

[RexCars]

Paradise Lost might be a good choice.

For me,

Christian theology + poetry = Success

Especially in Milton's case, with Dore really having his back more than a century later.

[nekosenshi]

My favorite semi-classic novel is Gone With The Wind. I generally disliked the books I had to read for school.

[Ran-Sang]

Oh the list, but I haven't read for pleasure in a long time.

-Tale of Two Cities
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Stuff by Edgar Allan Poe
-Stuff by Franz Kafka

I loved and hated this book so it would depend on your judgement for this one.

-Moby Dick

I just finished that last night, finally...

Perhaps I'll post more later. I have to read Old Man and the Sea right now.