Olden Times Books Discussion

[DanielofRedwall]

At school we are reading "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. It's not bad, I'd enjoy it more if we didn't analyse it so much and do so much on it!

[Gonff]

Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Mark Twain, the Hobbit. Robin Hood sometimes, depending on what version you read. The Bible. I know I've read some other ones, but I can't think of them at the moment.

[Lily]

At school we are reading "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. It's not bad, I'd enjoy it more if we didn't analyse it so much and do so much on it!

I also read this book at school! I love it. It is a much more enjoyable read when you don't have to analyse it, trust me. I think I mentioned in another thread that I really enjoy re-reading books I studied at school, you get a lot more out of them once you're a bit older.

I like "olden times" books. A few of my favourites are The Secret Garden, the Sherlock Holmes stories, Rebecca and Jane Eyre.

[Skalrag of Marshank]

Yeah, I really didn't enjoy reading Julie of the Wolves in fifth grade, because half of the time we spent reading was taking notes on the plot, elements, and vocabulary (most of which were words I already knew).

[Lutra]

Watership Down is clearly my contribution to the list. 

To others questions, yes it is a real place.  There's a whole website dedicated to the real Watership Down: http://www.lionking.org/~watership/

[Tiria Wildlough]

Yeah, I really didn't enjoy reading Julie of the Wolves in fifth grade, because half of the time we spent reading was taking notes on the plot, elements, and vocabulary (most of which were words I already knew).

I just finished Julie of the Wolves. All the wolf behaviour was quite interesting.

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

Aye. wolvez are alwayz zae intereztin' tae read aboat. White Fang, Call of the Wild, etc... Tiz az Sherlock Holmes often ztated. Reality iz often much ztranger than anythin' tha' zomeone could invent.

[Nightfire]

Black Beauty, White Fang, the Jungle Book, and the original  book of of "The Adventures of Robyn Hode and his Merry Men."

[Gonff the Mousethief]

robin hood, Narnia, lotr,, and..............

THE HOBBIT

[WildDoogyPlumm]

My favorites are probably Lord of the Rings and the Odyssey.  Old (or, in the case of the Odyssey, very old) fantasy books for the win!

[Rusvul]

I read Little House on the Prarie, I enjoyed it. I read The Hobbit, and the Fellowship, but during the Two Towers my interest sort of dwindled. The Narnia series is awesome. And I don't know how long ago it was written, but the Phantom Tollbooth is always a good book to read- no matter what.

[Redwaller]

I've got a lot! 

The Chronicles of Narnia
All books by J.R.R. Tolkien
Watership Down
Oliver Twist
Christmas Carol
20,000 Leagues under the sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
Mysterious Island
Voyage to the Center of the Earth
Moby D.i.c.k.(Says it's a bad person  [Look: dick])
Frankeinstein
The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle
All books by Agatha Christie
The Three Musketeers

And LOADS of others I can't remember right now. 

[Romsca]

This is like the only type of book I actually read! The ones that I really liked:

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Candide by Voltaire
Macbeth by Shakespeare
The Prince by Machiavelli
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
The Scarlet Pimpernell by Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
Where the Red Fern Grows by I can't remember...
White Fang by Jack London
Shane by Jack? Schaefer
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Books I didn't really like:

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (probably because I read the book, wrote a report on it, watched the play, and saw at least one movie all within a couple of weeks of each other )
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage by I can't remember...
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Books I COULDN'T STAND:

Utopia by Thomas More (I actually fell asleep during this one!)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Sorry, I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. I did, however, love the movie)

Books I am dying to read:

Moby D!ck by Herman Melville
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas


Moby bad person? *face keyboard*

[Ungatt Trunn]

My top 10 old time books:

1. The Hobbit By J.R.R Tolkien
2. Lord Of The Rings By J.R.R Tolkien
3. Sherlock Holmes Series By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Treasure Island By Robert Lewis Stevenson
5. Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
6. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
7. A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
8. Robin Hood By...well, there are several versions of the original story...
9. The Chronicles Of Narnia By C.S Lewis
10. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory By Roald Dahl

There are several other old-time books that I like, but I like these ones the best.

P.S: Romsca, why don't you like A Farwell To Arms?

[Leatho Shellhound]

Books I've Read

1. Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
2. In Search of the Castaways (unabridged) by Jules Verne
3. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (unabridged) by Jules Verne
4. The Mysterious Island (unabridged) by Jules Verne
5. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (unabridged) by Jules Verne
6. Around the World in 80 Days (unabridged) by Jules Verne
7. Treasure island (unabridged)  by Robert Louis Stevenson
8. Kidnapped (unabridged)  by Robert Louis Stevenson
9. Swiss Family Robinson (unabridged) by Johann David Wyss
10. Robin Hood (unabridged) by Roger Lancelyn Green
11. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (unabridged) by Roger Lancelyn Green
12. The King Arthur Trilogy (unabridged) Rosemary Sutcliff
13. Kim (unabridged) by Rudyard Kipling
14. The Enchanted Castle (unabridged) by Edith Nesbit
15. The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes (unabridged) by Arthur Conan Doyle
16. Hornblower Saga 11 books (unabridged) by C.S. Forester
17. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
18. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

And I'm sure there are many more I forgot to mention...Yes I'm a book worm.