Classics you know you should have read but probably haven't

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I know I feel guilt at the number of works I feel I ought to have read, but haven't quite managed to get round to yet... Well, let's try to prioritise!
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Randall.Parr: I would really like to read this book. Okay. thanks.
Arrashid7: I read btw. high school and college. Got me hooked on more Russian lit.
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aulsmith : Skipping. Too much blubber.
rainpebble : puts my brain in a muddle no matter how many attempts I make to read it.
amanda4242: I read it and discovered that I could quite happily have gone through life without having read it.
sturlington : Read in college.
JalenV: Read twice for different classes (one definitely in college), chose it the second time because I remembered enough from dfiscussing it the first time I figured it would help the second. (Still wonder if that preacher who appeared early in the book gave the same sermon every Sunday.)
Aprill: I love Melville's writing.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Interesting.
MyFathersDragon: I liked the book in 5th grade, but when I tried rereading in 11th grade, I didnā€™t find it interesting enough to read it, perhaps because I had previously read it.
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gilroy : Read it
amanda4242: Loved it.
auntSteelbreaker : Read it, did not enjoy it.
JalenV: I think I read my parents' copy. I'd read all my books and usually had the library ones finished before our next visit.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read, eh.
MyFathersDragon: I read some Twain in 5th grade and ended up reading most of his books.
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JalenV: Another library audio edition I checked out. I knew from my mom's copy of Plot Outlines of 100 Famous Novels that it didn't have a happy ending, but it was even more grim than I expected.
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dara85: I have read it twice. Once as a teenager and then as an adult. Loved it both times.
.Monkey. : Read in high school.
JalenV: Read more than once since I was a teen. I still remember scenes from it.
Aprill: I read it when I was younger and would like to read it again.
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tiddleyboom: I know the whole plot and resolution of Jane Eyre; I've just never read the book.
JalenV: I have read this book so many times since I was a school girl. However, it wasn't until PBS first aired "I, Claudius" that I understood that "West Indies Messalina" insult.
Aprill: Enjoyed it.
ahef1963: A favourite.
MyFathersDragon: It was available when I was reading anything I could find. I reread it in high school.
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amanda4242: Read in college.
electrice : read in 2013
JalenV: It's been decades, but watching the Overly Sarcastic Productions video about it on YouTube reminded me of details I'd forgotten, not to mention making me chuckle.
MyFathersDragon: I received it as a gift when I was about 12, so of course I read it. I reread it several years later, too.
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JalenV: Had to read for class. I've read that the standard text is a victim of bad editing. If true, that explains a lot.
ahef1963: Beautiful book.
MyFathersDragon: About 3rd grade - it was in the school library.
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tiddleyboom : Read it. Love Poe!
sturlington: This is very short; no reason not to read it.
JalenV: I don't have this particular copy, but I have the Poe book my parents gave me and the annotated tales of Poe. It's a good story.
ahef1963 : I don't like Poe, except for The Raven.
MyFathersDragon: I read a few of his poems in 3rd and 4th grade, liking them, so I read more of Poe when I came across him over the next few years, including this one. I donā€™t remember it well, now, but I remember liking it. It seems like that was in 6th grade.
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JalenV: I had read this was a funny book, but I didn't think so when I first read it. I reread it after reading Seven Gothic Masterpieces. Now that I knew what she was lampooning, it WAS a funny book.
ahef1963: Read - loved it.
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dara85: Didn't like it.
jain: Read it in high school but need to reread as an adult.
amanda4242: Read it a few times.
JalenV: I read it when it came out in paperback, decades ago. It still haunts me.
Aprill: Read it.
ahef1963: Thought it was brilliant.
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JalenV: Grew up on Sherlock Holmes as played by Basil Rathbone. My junior college graduation gift was the two-volume Annotated Sherlock Holmes and the Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook. It's one of his best adventures.
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JalenV: I've read it a couple of times. It's not as dull as Mansfield Park, but I can't say I like it much. I hope Emma and the Werewolves will be more fun.
ahef1963: Probably my least favourite Austen work, but still better than most other books of the period.
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amanda4242: Good book.
JalenV: My younger siblings and I used to play Hill House when we were kids in the 1960s after watching the 1963 film. My paperback copy is fragile now, so I bought and read a hardcover copy.
ahef1963: Excellent.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read. A favorite.
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sturlington : Couldn't finish.
aekd: F. Scott is not my thang.
MyFathersDragon: It was one of the classics to choose from to read in a high school class. I read lots of the choices, so I had options to choose from when it was time to write a book report.
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sturlington : Read long ago; could not make it through a reread, though.
Aprill: A beautiful story.
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gilroy : Faulkner is a dated writer. He was fine when he was first published, but unless you're a literary scholar, not worth the struggle.
ahef1963 : I detest Faulkner.
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ahef1963: I have read it; it was not the great book I'd been told it was.