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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:57 AM
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Alright, then what's your FAVORITE piece of classic fiction?
Since we've done the "unreadable" classics, what are your favorites and why?
For me its a couple: "Huckleberry Finn" because not only is it entertaining, but it was waaay ahead of its time on civil rights.
Also William Goldings "Lord of the Flies" just a very deep and thought provoking novel on the basic nature of humankind....
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:59 AM
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1. To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 12:05 PM
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2. The Forsyte Saga
WOn the Nobel Prize for literature in 1934 the year after John Galsworthy died. I think I've read all 6 books at least 3 times.

Mz Pip
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 12:13 PM
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3. Tie between "Madame Bovary" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 12:19 PM
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4. The Redskin's playbook?
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 12:27 PM
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6. PFFT! Nice post, Tony Romo!
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 12:20 PM
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5. Oh Gosh
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 12:21 PM by Beetwasher
I guess it kinda depends of the definition of "classic".

Yeah, Huck Finn is awesome, but it's not in my top.

Would you consider the following classics? And abridged list of some of my favorite books, in no
particular order except Vonnegut is at the top as it should be:

Just about anything by Vonnegut
Confederacy of Dunces
Catch 22
Island (Huxley)
Siddhartha
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
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steelemagnolia Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 12:27 PM
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7. Madame Bovary, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wuthering Heights eom
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