What popular/classic books have you never read?

[Free4Life11]

I've never read "Lord of the Flies" or "To Kill a Mockingbird."

 

[NMAmy]

I've never read "Lord of the Flies" or "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Please, read To Kill a Mockingbird right away. It's my favorite book EVER.

I've read a lot of the classics but could never get into the long Russian epics. I've never read War & Peace, although I did start it once.

 

[HonestAbe]

Please, read To Kill a Mockingbird right away. It's my favorite book EVER.

I've read a lot of the classics but could never get into the long Russian epics. I've never read War & Peace, although I did start it once.

I started W&P too and put it back in the stacks at the library after about 30 minutes. Just too darn big.

 

[Desnik]

I've never read those either. Most people can't believe I never even read Moby Dick! When I was younger I was never into reading too much. Now I love it, but it's so hard to find the time with 2 kiddies!

 

[TinkerBess_SnowTori]

Any of the Harry Potter -- I am sure I would like them -- just haven't read them.

 

[Microcell]

Both are really good books that you must read. I have to admit War and Peace could not keep my attention, and I have suffered through Dune!

I am sure a couple Dickens books slipped through without me reading, but I can't recall what they might be. I have read Nicholas Nickelby, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, a Christmas Carol, Tale of Two Cities...

Went to look it up, and I have not read Bleak House.

 

[MomofKatie]

I haven't read W&P, but it never sounded like something I'd really be interesed in. Never read Tale of Two Cities by Dickens- but I really want to.

And, I'm ashamed to admit that I've never read any of the Jane Austen novels- but I have seen most of the movies!!

 

[Maleficent13]

Hmmm...I've read pretty much all of them, really (English degree). I agree with Amy (of course) that To Kill a Mockingbird is an amazing book! But there were some real doozies too...Great Expectations is awful. So is Madame Bovary. Oh...what was the one where they can't get to "R"...Virginia Woolf I think...

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

There's too many to list.
Gone with the Wind
Any Jane Austen
Any Dickens
Any Shakespeare
Any Harry Potter
War and Peace
I think I can sum it up to say, I really haven't read any classics. I had to read a few in high school. The one I remember is To Kill a Mockingbird and that other one...by JD Salinger about the boy. Oh what's it called!! It was the book in that movie Conspiracy that he had to buy...I can't think of it. Oh, I did read Of Mice & Men. That's about it.

Ah! Catcher in the Rye!! That's it!! I read that one.

 

[NMAmy]

Hmmm...I've read pretty much all of them, really (English degree). I agree with Amy (of course) that To Kill a Mockingbird is an amazing book! But there were some real doozies too...Great Expectations is awful. So is Madame Bovary. Oh...what was the one where they can't get to "R"...Virginia Woolf I think...

Don't forget Wuthering Heights. While I love Jane Eyre (a real can-do kind of girl!), Cathy just makes me want to smack her!

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

Definitely read To Kill A Mockingbird. I read it years ago in school. It was the only book handed out in an English class that I actually read.

I too want to read Jane Austen. I also want to read One Hundred Years of Solitude but I am afraid I will get bored of it fast. Plus, I barely have time to read.

 

[mickeyfan2]

"To Kill a Mockingbird."

This one is fabulous. We read it in Middle School.

 

[Maleficent13]

Ah, yes, Wuthering Heights. We need a :shudder: smilie!

 

[phisigprincess]

I haven't read Catcher in the Rye and I really want to!

 

[mickeyfan2]

I haven't read Catcher in the Rye and I really want to!

We read this in High School. All the other school in the area had banned it. So we felt special. After reading it, none of us understood what was so bad about it.

 

[GoofyDad869]

Classics - I've never read "Moby Dick". I can't make it through a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, or a Jane Austen book if my life depended on it (I've tried on all accounts). Popular books - I was a hold-out on the Harry Potter books until "Order of the Phoenix" came out (then I went back to read them all again in order to maintain storyline comprehension).

All that being said, I consider myself to be fairly well-read. As others have said - you've got to read "To Kill A Mockingbird". I've read it four or five times - Scout reminds me of my daughter alot. I love John Steinbeck books. I love Kurt Vonnegut books. Another 'classic' novel that I really love is Joseph Heller "Catch-22" - it's very funny.

 

[chrrycolalola]

I have two passions in life ( well besides DF, Dcats and Family lol) but those are Disney, of course and literature. I will read anything I get my hands on! Although as a writer and past English/ Comp Lit Major it is pretty much a requirement. I agree that To kill a Mockingbird, LOTF and Catcher in the Rye are must reads. The only books that I can think of off the top of my head that I haven't completed yet ( and really need to ) are Ulysses by James Joyce ( anyone who knows of this book, knows that it def isn't light reading, but it is a goal that I set for myself to finish in the coming months) and I would also love to read the original works of Kafka in German. Fun Stuff

 

[BethR]

30 years after HS, I realize that I have a really horrid literature background.

I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird (but I think that I will go out looking for a copy straight away. I have seen the movie and loved it.)

I have never read The Scarlett Letter.

I have never read the Catcher in the Rye.

The only Shakespeare I read was Romeo and Juliet. (Although I participated in A Midsummer's Night's Dream for the drama dept.)

I have never read any Dickens.

I have never read any Jane Austen.

I have never read Moby Dick. Or Around the World in 80 Days.

I DID read Grapes of Wrath though. And some Hemingway. Maybe something by Saul Bellow? (I think that I took a course in 20th Century American Authors?)

Sometime I do feel illiterate.

But I read all of the time!

 

[brerrabbit]

"Call me Ishmail" No thanks Ishmail just never cared to much about you and your white whale.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" Sounds way to much like my life so I probably would'nt want to read it anyway.

Other than that I have read a bunch of the others. War and Peace, To Kill a Mockingbird etc.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

I haven't read any of the books that were posted.
I admit I never liked to read ( except for the daily paper!)