Classical Literature: Anyone with a Taste for the Finer Stuff?

[diplomatic_lies]

I think his issue was with people who read literature just to "look cool", not because they actually appreciate it. I know many people who think they're better than everyone else because they don't watch TV and can recite Descartes backwards.

On that note, all that intellectualism didn't help France much in 1940.

 

[StrangeButTrue]

The 'intellectual wankering' you speak of is what lead to the high-minded ideals of the French Revolution and the decline of European monarchy, which inspired in turn the American revolution. The founding fathers were weaned on the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau, whch is why your beloved Constitiution indulges in such silly intellectual wankering as 'free speech' and 'all men are created equal'.

You've got it backwards. The Americans were inspired by Enlightenment thinkers, and revolted to establish a democracy in the colonies. The French were inspired by this and revolted against Louis XVI.

However your idea remains valid, except for the fact that the French revolution took a turn for the worse pretty damn fast.

 

[Ice Cold]

I love the classics - my favourites being:

Don Quixote
Treasure Island
Robinson Cruesoe
David Copperfield
A Tale Of Two Cities
Mystery Of Edwin Drood - (Read this then Write your own ending!! Its good fun)
Prometheus Unbound
- anything by Shelley,Keats,Byron,Milton
The Art Of War
Grimms Fairy Tales

How old are you? 12?

 

[wavejams007]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Lamb, Francis Bacon, Stuart Ewen, Richard Preston, J.R.R. Tolkien, Moliere, Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Charles Colson, Philip Yancey, some of Charles ****ens(site is censoring the first part ofhis last name), Wallace Stegner, C.S. Lewis, John Grisham, August Wilson, and lots more...

 

[Brian20o2]

Dr Seuss is the ****! Also alot of these sound like book we read in my philosophy class.

 

[Nighthawk]

Borges.

 

[wavejams007]

Dr Seuss is the ****! Also alot of these sound like book we read in my philosophy class.

I am in A.P. English literature and A.P language and composition. I read a lot 0f different authors. Dr. seuss doesn't count for A.P. level according to teachers and all, but I disagree, he has contributed a lot to American literature.

I have a lot of other authors that are worth mentioning, but there are too many to suggest.