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11-04-2009, 04:34 PM
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Please recommend a "classic" that would be good for a book club.
We're all women. We have already read Madame Bovary. Thanks!
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11-04-2009, 04:53 PM
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It's not a classic, not at all, but Stieg Larsson's Milenium trilogy is fantastic. A lot of pages, but like a drug.
It's not a classic, but it will be.
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11-04-2009, 06:01 PM
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Pride & Prejudice
Vanity Fair
The Woman in White (if you like mysteries)
Jane Eyre
Emma
Outlander (not a classic, but great!)
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11-04-2009, 06:05 PM
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the last of the mochicans , to kill a mocking bird , wuthering heights , jane eyre , I love all of those .
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11-04-2009, 06:07 PM
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+ 1 for Outlander. I just finished the most recent in the series and am bummed I will have to wait who knows how long for the next.
As for a classic, how about Little Women by Louisa May Alcott?
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11-04-2009, 06:51 PM
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The Good Earth?
Others that fall into "not a classic" but discussion-worthy:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Poisonwood Bible
The Samurai's Garden
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11-04-2009, 07:47 PM
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Mrs. Dalloway
Light in August
As I lay Dying
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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11-04-2009, 08:08 PM
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Rebecca
Tender Is The Night
The Portrait of a Lady
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lady Chatterly's Lover
The Scarlet Pimpernel
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11-04-2009, 08:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TeaJay
We're all women. We have already read Madame Bovary. Thanks!
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James Agee's " A Death in the Family"-widely considered on of the best american novels of the last hundred years.
Written plainly but profoundly about a family, it speaks about all families in a way that brings joy to the heart and tears to the eyes.
Of the thousands of novels I've read, in my top ten easily. |
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11-04-2009, 11:21 PM
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spay & neuter your pets!
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The Good Earth
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Jane Eyre
We read all of these for book club, and had great discussions on them.
Books I think would also be a good discussion:
Frankenstein
Resurrection (Tolstoy)
The Jungle (although there will be some who'll refuse to read it!)
The Grapes of Wrath
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