Classics R Good

[primsong]

Just thinking on how pleased I am that my three teens are reading at this time
Pride and Prejudice, (with plans for Sense and Sensibility)
The Three Musketeers (he just finished the Count of Monte Cristo), and
The Scarlet Pimpernel (she's going for 'The Elusive Pimpernel' next)

There's something that just fluffs my feathers about that. I grew up with an emphasis on books being classics 'for a reason' and usually being well worth a read, and they have rarely been disappointments.

A boy at my son's school sniffed at Musketeers and told him if he wanted to read a "real hard book" he should be reading Twilight - proof being when he held up his copy it was 'thicker' than Dumas' masterpiece. Heh. Of course, the effort to point out little details like size of type and width of margins was pushed aside. Oh well. I was pleased to find that class starting in on Kipling's Captains Courageous next - it has some gnarly, intense moments in it but I think those boys might enjoy a taste of a good, gritty sea story if they've been reading vampire fluff.

Comments

[iorhael94.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. Bob just finished "Count of Monte Christo" and "The Three Muskateers" played a very important part in Slumdog Millionaire. I'm ashamed to say I haven't read any of them. ;o

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Monte Cristo is one of the most intricate and fascinating webs of revenge ever spun, and Musketeers has such an awesome set of nearly-heroic (but not *too* perfect) friends with excellent bad guys. I recommend it! Man in the Iron Mask is the other Dumas often referred to, but I don't recommend that one as I found it quite depressing. :-P (well written, but a downer!)

Go Bob! I get my turn to go "huh?" because I haven't a clue what 'Slumdog Millionaire' is.

[iorhael94.livejournal.com]

Slumdog Millionaire is the favored movie for Best Picture at the Oscars Sunday. We saw it Saturday...its difficult watching in parts but it was great at the end...Its about a Muslim orphan boy growing up in India and he ends up on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" after a childhood full of the struggle to survive. The Three Muskateers plays an important part but I won't say anymore than that ;)

I have been considering reading Pride and Prejudice myself.

Oh, Slumdog Millionaire is based on a novel called "Q&A".