What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?

[wub]

Nearly done with Catch 22 and reckon could do with a spell on the classics...any suggestions that aren't Neuromancer or To Kill A Mockingbird?

[BaronVon]

[Steve_French]

[wub]

Good shout

Tried to read that, wasn't for me

[ehbes]

[cloquet]

dubliners
naked lunch
gravity's rainbow
notes from the underground
ham on rye
the stranger
the great gatsby
heart of darkness

[volcanogeorge]

crime and punishment
on the road

[fassyman]

siddhartha
brave new wrold
1984

[Kochari]

naked lunch

x100000000000000000

[Shum]

[mo_respect]

playboy

[noam]

The Brothers Karamazov
The Gambler
Nausea
Metamorphosis

[wub]

A satirical view of capitalism/global expansion, brilliant.

[defoxster]

Someone mentioned 1984 already but most of Orwell's I would class as "Classics."
Lord of the rings.
Trainspotting.
Clockwork Orange
Hitchhikers guide....

Ive recently read alot of Brett Eaton Ellis books. Some might say they are cult or modern "Classics." I'm probably confusing matters

[noam]

Someone mentioned 1984 already but most of Orwell's I would class as "Classics."
Lord of the rings.
Trainspotting.
Clockwork Orange
Hitchhikers guide....

Ive recently read alot of Brett Eaton Ellis books. Some might say they are cult or modern "Classics." I'm probably confusing matters

they'd just be called 'modern classics' i think!

[cloquet]

Someone mentioned 1984 already but most of Orwell's I would class as "Classics."
Lord of the rings.
Trainspotting.
Clockwork Orange
Hitchhikers guide....

Ive recently read alot of Brett Eaton Ellis books. Some might say they are cult or modern "Classics." I'm probably confusing matters

they'd just be called 'modern classics' i think!

I think 'trainspotting' would also fall into that category

[wub]

Last thing I need in my life is more Bret Easton Ellis books, trust

[joeki]

I am an avid reader of literature. I started when I was very young, like most, with Sci-Fi, but then worked my way back to the great literature of mankind. So don't consider this as another attempt at me professing my HIPSTERNESS, I'm serious!

Fairly recent
The Man-Eaters of the Kuaom
Solaris
I Am Legend
The Road

Are some of my favourites

Classics

Dr. Zjivago (pasternak)
We (Zamjatin)
La Nausée (Sartre)
Die Verwandlung (Kafka)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Great Expectations (Dickens)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) => I know, Gay.

But my favourite literature are the Russian greats (much like the Sovjet filmmakers, they are horribly underrated)
These are my true recommendations.

Crime & Punishment (Dostojevski)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostojevski)
War & Peace (Tolstoj)
Fathers & Sons (Turgenjev)
Oblomov (gontsjarov) => BEST BOOK I HAVE READ TO DATE
Dead Souls (Gogol)


I'll leave you with those. Check out the Ruski's, they know how to write gloomy yet hopeful works.

[noam]

Someone mentioned 1984 already but most of Orwell's I would class as "Classics."
Lord of the rings.
Trainspotting.
Clockwork Orange
Hitchhikers guide....

Ive recently read alot of Brett Eaton Ellis books. Some might say they are cult or modern "Classics." I'm probably confusing matters

they'd just be called 'modern classics' i think!

I think 'trainspotting' would also fall into that category

i meant all of the above

tbh, anything post-1900 is a 'modern' classic i think??\

Last thing I need in my life is more Bret Easton Ellis books, trust

aint dat da troof

[hutyluty]

ulysses
finnegan's wake

put you off reading for life

edit: not classics but i have recently read and reccomend
coetzee- waiting for the barbarians again and it was even better than i remembered
dick- Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said- i never really liked his books but this one was great
David Constantine- Under The Dam- Great language, images in the mind and stuff!
Asimov- Foundation series- sci fi at its best
Neal Stephenson- Snow Crash- sci fi even better
Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse 5- weird but in a good way, not quite sure i got it, might reread.
Diana Wynne Jones- 8 Days of Luke