Penguin Classics (1 Viewer)

[trickx]

I've got about a dozen of them.

How many do you have and which one would be your favourite pick out of all of them?

 

[efhat]

a clockwork orange

havent read it yet though

 

[Hypermelon]

erm clockwork orange,one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the fabric of the cosmos, perfume

i liked clockwork orange the best

 

[Cinnamonster]

Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo
A Short History of the World - H.G. Wells
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice-Burroughs
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Diary of Anne Frank
1984 - George Orwell
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

I haven't read them all yet. I gave up on Oliver Twist, read a few entries of Anne's diary, plan on getting back to Notre Dame and I'm a few chapters into A Short History of the World. I haven't even started 1984 yet even though I bought it two years ago. Sigh. I need to finish Tarzan.
A Short History of the World is my favourite so far.

 

[Casablancas]

erm clockwork orange,one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the fabric of the cosmos, perfume

i liked clockwork orange the best

Its so hard to read A clockwork orange---too much effing made up jargon to keep up, but the narration style sorta reminds me of the Catcher in the rye, which I love

Penguin books= Pure awesumness
-Picture of Dorian Gray
-Lolita
-Lady Chatterly's Lover

I get all hot when i see those orange and white covers. Oh baby. Daddy like

 

[Miss Melly]

i've got breakfast at tiffany's only because i love the movie, the book tells the story in a totally different perspective =]

 

[Naf]

- pride & prejudice
- breakfast at tiffany's
- the great gatsby

lovely books! except havent read great gatsby yet. i will soon so i can watch the movie with robert redford

 

[Absolutezero]

Got a couple, though I mostly have different version of the books, and not the Penguin Classics.

 

[Sarebs]

Its so hard to read A clockwork orange---too much effing made up jargon to keep up

I know!!! I read the first two pages... and my mind was spinning.

My fave so far is "The Classical World". Really easy to read.

 

[naisAtoN]

Its so hard to read A clockwork orange---too much effing made up jargon to keep up, but the narration style sorta reminds me of the Catcher in the rye, which I love

Penguin books= Pure awesumness
-Picture of Dorian Gray
-Lolita
-Lady Chatterly's Lover

I get all hot when i see those orange and white covers. Oh baby. Daddy like

+1, that totally just made me lol. Please tell me you're a fan of YouTube - communitychannel's Channel.

Moving on, I loved 1984 and I've recently begun reading Mikhael Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" which, I must say, is so far rather intriguing.

I hadn't given myself much of a chance to read many of the "classics" up until now, what with the pressure of all the HSC texts, but I'm enjoying the return to reading for leisure.

 

[Kujah]

what is history?

 

[Alice_in_wonder]

Its so hard to read A clockwork orange---too much effing made up jargon to keep up, but the narration style sorta reminds me of the Catcher in the rye, which I love

Penguin books= Pure awesumness
-Picture of Dorian Gray
-Lolita
-Lady Chatterly's Lover

I get all hot when i see those orange and white covers. Oh baby. Daddy like

Mhh yup, Lolita. The best.
My sister's like: Isn't that about Pedophilia?
Me: Yeah, and Shakespeare's As you like it is about cross-dressing when you say that way.

BTW, i have nothing against shakespeare. It was to get my sister off my back for reading Lolita.

Animal farm anyone?

 

[Sarebs]

- pride & prejudice
- breakfast at tiffany's
- the great gatsby

lovely books! except havent read great gatsby yet. i will soon so i can watch the movie with robert redford

Ahhh The Great Gatsby is great! And the movie is excellent too! Robert Redford does a really good job as Gatsby, and the scenery is so mmmmmm nice! Love the pool haha.

 

[SylviaB]

I get all hot when i see those orange and white covers. Oh baby. Daddy like

Nah orange and white covers = Popular penguins.

Classic penguins usually have an oil painting with a black area at the bottom with the title on it like this

 

[klaris]

Thank God for Penguin.

I love my Penguin Classic books. I have a fair few.

My favourites:

1984 - George Orwell
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

It is a toss up between those two.

I like 1984 because it is eye-opening and fantastic and just...hmm.

I like Dorian Gray because it was controversial and is beautifully written.

Also:

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.

30 pages in.

I don't know whether to continue reading or not.

Any good?

 

[luvtads]

I absolutely love penguin classics. My library has

The picture of Dorian Gray
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Dracula
Frankenstein
1984
Utopia
and A Clockwork Orange

Out of them my favorite has to be 1984, truly a classic that everyone should read.

 

[ltjlbhd]

Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo
A Short History of the World - H.G. Wells
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice-Burroughs
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Diary of Anne Frank
1984 - George Orwell

I haven't read them all yet. I gave up on Oliver Twist, read a few entries of Anne's diary, plan on getting back to Notre Dame and I'm a few chapters into A Short History of the World. I haven't even started 1984 yet even though I bought it two years ago. Sigh. I need to finish Tarzan.
A Short History of the World is my favourite so far.

en , you have said what i wanted. haha

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[Absolutezero]

Picked up a copy of Twitterature the other day. Is basically a whole whole of classic texts (mostly, or all Penguin) summarised in twitter form, i.e. structured as tweets 140 characters or less.

Should be interesting to read the modern summaries of some of the texts.

 

[wendybird]

+1, that totally just made me lol. Please tell me you're a fan of YouTube - communitychannel's Channel.

Moving on, I loved 1984 and I've recently begun reading Mikhael Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" which, I must say, is so far rather intriguing.

I hadn't given myself much of a chance to read many of the "classics" up until now, what with the pressure of all the HSC texts, but I'm enjoying the return to reading for leisure.

Oh my god, you're freaking awesome. Go Russian literature!!!
If you're familiar with Dostoevsky at all, did you notice the parallels between the Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and the characters in Master and Margarita?

Solzhenitzyn is also in the penguin series - another amazing russian author. A Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich I think.

 

[Sayangliss]

Have a fair few. Love them all, but I must say 'The Plague' by Albert Camus is more of a favourite.