the Blacksheep Project: [Top Ten Tuesday] Classics I Want To Read

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and The Bookish.

This Week’s Topic: Classics I Want to Read. So far I’ve only read 3 classics – NEMESIS, The Giver, and Wuthering Heights. I have the Iliad and Jane Eyre up my ‘currently-reading’ shelf but in reality I stalled them because I’m getting bored.

Yup, that’s just how classics end up in my hands. Classics easily bore the hell out of me BUT there really is just this part of me that wants to read them. I’m really doing my best to motivate myself and read classics. I’m honestly reading Jane Eyre bit by bit. Hopefully I can finish it before the year ends though, hahaha~~

1984. dystopian classic. I’ve read the blurb on this and I just grew interested. I’m most likely grabbing a copy soon (as in soon after I’m done with my book-buying-ban).
Bleak House. or Great Expectations or A Tale of Two Cities. I just want something by Charles Dickens! I’ve read some abridged stories by Dickens and I’m really eager to read the full version but there’s this part of me that’s bit scared that I’ll just end up being bored.
Pride and Prejudice. or Sense and Sensibility or Emma. I also just want something by Jane Austen! Austen is such a well ringed name when we talk about classics.
Villette. I generally just want to try another Charlotte Brontë book (I currently have Jane Eyre stalled by the way~)
The Catcher in the Rye. Found out about this when I was reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Really. I checked it out in goodreads and thought that maybe I should go read it as well.

To Kill A Mockingbird. I heard this is a great classic. I have a copy of this (because my sister read it for school) and I’m still waiting for the right time (or mood) to read this one~
The Tempest. or anything (okay maybe not anything) by Shakespeare. I know Shakespeare is a difficult read but really, I just want to try reading some of his works.
Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction, yeah? Sherlock Holmes is such a big name in crime fiction. And while I am enjoying Cormoran Strike so much, I thought that maybe Sherlock Holmes is a must read for crime fiction fans…
The Scarlet Letter. My world literature professor (or was it another professor?) just went out blabbering about this book and she got me interested…
The Great Gatsby. Another classic that’s ~~quite~~ popular (because of the movie perhaps).

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How about you guys, what classics do you want to read? :D

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jazmen · 560 weeks ago

I've never read The Tempest. I really do want to read more Shakespeare. I loved the 2013 version of Romeo and Juliet although it was very dramatic and tragic.

I really do have a hard time getting into classics but I definitely want to read more.

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blacksheep187 90p · 559 weeks ago

I've never seen the latest version of Romeo and Juliet but I was generally never a fan of that story (but I do like that it's a tragedy~~).. the Tempest was the first Shakespeare play that came to my mind when I was thinking of which one to show because one of the anime I've seen a year or so ago was based on it... kind of made me interested in it..
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thebooksupplier 14p · 560 weeks ago

I think The Great Gatsby is also pretty popular because so many high school students in the US were made to read it. I know I wouldn't have been as excited about the movie had it not been for the fact that I read it as a 16 year old and I wanted to revisit that part of my educational upbringing.

I guess one of the things I envy about high school students in the US is that they were made to read classics (but maybe it's not exactly something to be envious about for others -__-)... I think it's one of the greatest opportunities to actually get into reading and be able to read some of the greatest classics out there..
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Vicki W · 560 weeks ago

Jane Eyre is worth persevering with! I love Gatsby too, though as others have said it might be because it was one of the few books I enjoyed reading at school. The Sherlock Holmes books are brilliant too, and a lot easier to read than some of the other classics which is why i like them so much!

thanks for the motivation... some people have told me that Jane Eyre is one of their fave books and I was like: seriously? but it's boring me out... -__- guess I should get back to it soon (little by little)... The Sherlock Holmes is something I'd like to read after I started getting interested in crime fiction and thanks for letting me know that... easy classic reads is a good plus for me since many classics are quite difficult to read or get into..
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SandySomewhere · 560 weeks ago

I want to read all the classics, but I can't read them back to back because it usually takes me a while to get into the period language. Thanks for stopping by my TTT!

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yess!! read all the classics! I want to do that as well... if only we have so much time in our hands~
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@InkkReviews · 559 weeks ago

I'm right there with you girl... i want to read some classics but ughhh they tend to bore me too! I had to read How to kill a mocking bird and the great gatsby for school... just not my cup of tea.. but I do want to give 1984 a chance! That one really intrigues me ! thanks for checking out my TTT today! ~ Katie @ Inkk Reviews

it's relieving to know I'm not that only one who feels that way.. somehow I kind of find myself quite lucky that I was never required to actually read an entire book for school (okay maybe once but that was a really~~ short book)... I've heard good things about 1984... it's one of the first ones I'd like to pick up soon from this list..
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