What's your favorite classic novel?

[J.B.]

A Clockwork Orange
Dune

[Brue]

To Kill A Mockingbird - a great novel AND a great film. That's rare.

same on the book, not the movie. film was OK.

[Goblin19]

Classic would probably be Macbeth, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, or Mony Dick. More modern would be Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird or my absolute favorite, Breakfast of Champions.

[Brazoo]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

[EmergencyIan]

Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

- Ian

[Confessional]

Animal Farm and Moby Dick; me likes beastie revenge morality tales!

[YoungOnce]

The most classic things I’ve read of my own volition (i.e. not mandated in school), would have to be Of Mice and Men ( the opening paragraphs read like sweet syrup pouring from the bottle. Perfection.), Lord of the Flies, and the Tolkien stuff. Being a Dungeons and Dragons fan, I was always more into the Appendix N books, Jack Vance especially.

I know... I’m a Neanderthal...

[Obibob]

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

[cjefferys]

I would need to know the generally accepted date cutoff for a novel to be considered "classic" before I could make a firm decision.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Heh, my son loved that one. I lost count how many times I read that to him.

[Obi]

I would need to know the generally accepted date cutoff for a novel to be considered "classic" before I could make a firm decision.




Heh, my son loved that one. I lost count how many times I read that to him.

It appears classic has little to do with date based on the responses. Novel is also quite...fluid.

[EMCE Hammer]

Les Miserables
The Three Musketeers
A Tale of Two Cities
Anything Jules Verne
Baby Beluga

If more modern stuff........Asimov, Tolkien, Anthony, Brooks, Donaldson, McCaffrey etc.

[jwyblejr]

Depends on how you define classic. I'll go with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If that's not covered,The Odyssey.

[knight errant00]

The Count of Monte Cristo, going by most definitions of "classic."

Otherwise, A Princess of Mars is my favorite book of all time.

[Brazoo]

I would need to know the generally accepted date cutoff for a novel to be considered "classic" before I could make a firm decision.




Heh, my son loved that one. I lost count how many times I read that to him.

I honestly had trouble with the parameters as well. I've read that book to my son a bazillion times too and we both love it. It has everything! Plus holes puched through it!

[phil]

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

Excellent novel! I read it back in high school and should have remembered it.