The Classics (and Classic Horror novels)

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The Nameless

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I read Of Mice And Men in school, but can't remember anything about it, all I know of it now is from 11/22/63. I probably never even paid attention to it in school - I didn't like reading then.

Has anyone read H.G Wells' War of the Worlds? I adore Jeff Wayne's musical, and want to read it, I have the ebook but I think it is something I would want to read as a real book, don't know why - just doesn't seem right reading a classic on modern technology.
 

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I read Of Mice And Men in school, but can't remember anything about it, all I know of it now is from 11/22/63. I probably never even paid attention to it in school - I didn't like reading then.

Has anyone read H.G Wells' War of the Worlds? I adore Jeff Wayne's musical, and want to read it, I have the ebook but I think it is something I would want to read as a real book, don't know why - just doesn't seem right reading a classic on modern technology.
i have watched the movie and have yet to read the book. Next time i go to the library will check and see if they have it.
 

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i have watched the movie and have yet to read the book. Next time i go to the library will check and see if they have it.
The one with tom god damn cruise (hate that little prick) that was set in America? I mean, changing the country it is set in is one thing, but casting tom cruise? Nah, sorry, I can't watch that.
 

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I've been putting off reading classic novels for years because they sound good but I don't want to be confused by the language.

These are the books I've been thinking of getting..

a Tale of two Cities
Great Expectations
Frankenstien
Picture of Dorian gray

I was kind of put off by classics because the first classic I ever read was Moby Dick. which was the most boring book I've ever read.

any other classics that people like? they don't have to be strictly horror I was going to change that in the title of the thread and forgot.
Don't let the language scare you... It's only English!
But seriously, just take your time with it. We tend to think of the classics as being high literature because they are written in a version of English that has "moved on" but in reality, they were mostly just written in the language of the day. Why don't you try reading the daily installments of Dickens' A Christmas Carol that accompany Jake & company's vignettes. It can be a good exercise to help you get familiar with the language. You can find them here:
A (SKMB) Christmas Carol | The StephenKing.com Message Board
 

GNTLGNT

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Lord of the Larva?
...more horrifying YET!...Lord of the Dance!......

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If you read Catcher in the Rye, be sure to also read Salinger's other stories, but especially Raise High the Roof Beams Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.
there's some business in the second that applies...I think...to Catcher...this business about touching. Not as obvious in Catcher alone...but taken with Raise High the Roof Beams Carpenters...check out the parade scene in this second...apply that to Catcher...and mayhap the parents are touchy for whatever reason...zooey is a hoot...wanting to come home to a different house. Heh! [/spoilers]
 

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I read Of Mice And Men in school, but can't remember anything about it, all I know of it now is from 11/22/63. I probably never even paid attention to it in school - I didn't like reading then.

Has anyone read H.G Wells' War of the Worlds? I adore Jeff Wayne's musical, and want to read it, I have the ebook but I think it is something I would want to read as a real book, don't know why - just doesn't seem right reading a classic on modern technology.
H.G. Wells had so many great books. Loved the time machine too.

The best movie adaption of War of the Worlds is the Night that Panicked America. It's not about the book. It's about the radio broadcast. I absolutely love the scene of the butler with a cigar.
 

The Nameless

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H.G. Wells had so many great books. Loved the time machine too.

The best movie adaption of War of the Worlds is the Night that Panicked America. It's not about the book. It's about the radio broadcast. I absolutely love the scene of the butler with a cigar.
On a whim, I went in search of a cheap used copy online and found this cheaper than most single war of the worlds books.
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I'd heard of the time machine but not the others (i know of the old invisible man film, don't know if it's based on the wells book).
 

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<drooling>

I haven't read First Men In The Moon. Never heard if it. But it's IN instead of ON.

I think the invisible man movie is based on the novel. But as with the other three that have been turned into movies, it may be loosely based on it.

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I once read a book about Jack the Ripper travelling through HG Wells Time machine to modern day and Wells following him. All I remember was because by the 70's (which was modern day when the book was written) the time machine had been moved to the US that's where they ended up. Probably New York. And Wells ended up in what he assumed a restaurant, standing behind others, and describing everything as a scientist who has never seen this stuff, and after listening to others order, he asked for "a quarter pounder with" but has NO idea what it is....even after he gets it. Quarter pound of what? Some kind of meat substitute is what he finally decides. Anyway, it was a good book. Not a classic, but a cross between a few classics.