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I love Jane Austen writings, Jane Eyre can be the best I’ve read for her, but Pride & Prejudice is still a masterpiece.

chinese literature is wonderful.so i feel sad in that many people in ths world still cannot read and understand them.chinese is so different .to be a translator is no easy thing .

i fond of classical literature. Moreover i’m sure nowadays there are no so good writers in comparing with authors who lived many years ago. A perfect style of writing in my point of view.

most of all i like Russian classic books as “War and peace” or “Crime and Punishment”.

i dont read books much as i feel bit boring. i just started reading pride and prejudice by jane austen and finding it good as of now. i have read some of sydney shldon books which were fantastic.

i like classical literature,haruku murakami is one of my favorate writter.there is another book named CONSUELO like my old friend from middle school.

Well, you know how people claim to be familiar with classical literature just so they’d be perceived as being sophisticated and worldly? I have to confess that in the not so distant past I’ve also tried to be in that category myself. But any time I pick up one of the foremost authors of what may be referred to as the quintessential samples of classical literature, like Shakespeare or Charles Dickens, I find these books too ‘dense’ and cumbersome for my liking. I battle with their ancient english and I lose interest in no time. This is why I resigned to the more modern works, sticking with the ones that I can understand and enjoy with minimal external commentary. And in cases where the classics have movie adaptation I try to watch the adaption so I don’t feel completely left out in experiencing stories so great they have been immortalised thus. 

Well, you know how people claim to be familiar with classical literature just so they’d be perceived as being sophisticated and worldly? I have to confess that in the not so distant past I’ve also tried to be in that category myself. But any time I pick up one of the foremost authors of what may be referred to as the quintessential samples of classical literature, like Shakespeare or Charles Dickens, I find these books too ‘dense’ and cumbersome for my liking. I battle with their ancient english and I lose interest in no time. This is why I resigned to the more modern works, sticking with the ones that I can understand and enjoy with minimal external commentary. And in cases where the classics have movie adaptation I try to watch the adaption so I don’t feel completely left out in experiencing stories so great they have been immortalised thus. 

everything begins with love…what a beautiful phrase !!!

yesss, reading begins with love …if you love reading ,all literature doors open for you ..

Classical literature presents you very different stories..many different characters ..unbelievable events..

when you enter into classical literature,you can walk with heroes..its a great journey ..

 What makes a book classical. Talent!  For me it’s Somerset Maugham. Love his short stories. Not boring, true to life and shockingly revealing about human beautiful, ugly, kind, evil nature. And the classic word from the lesson I want to use — Somerset Maugham is a quintessential English gentleman!:)

Currently, I’m reading “The Count of Monte Christo” by Alexandre Dumas. It’s an adventure novel by author Alexandre Dumas. It’s the most interesting book I’ve ever read and therefore my favourite too, but as tamago has already mentioned “the catcher in the rye” is also a great book.

Yes I read classic literature, Victor Hugo, many of us read the novel, the famous (Les Miserables), which turned into a film from 1909, when it appeared character (Jean Valjean) on the big screen in an American film which carries the same title as the novel (Les Misérables) through to where in 2000 appeared in the French television

My favorite book is “the catcher in the rye”.
And also love reading Haruki Murakami.

I think reading classical literature is good, and it can be very informative for the reader about prior generations. I prefer modern literature, however.

I dont know about this topic too much, but I think people are no longer interested in literature compared with years ago. Nowadays, they’er busy with some other things, I think the new technology is one of them that pulled the rug from under the literature, tough news and hard stories also are being more important and quintessential recently than classical literature for many people.