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    Quote Originally Posted by Perianne View Post
    I found an old copy of Huckleberry Finn and started reading it. What a delight!

    My favorite old classic book, which I read every five years or so, is Robinson Crusoe.

    Anyone else enjoy reading the classics?
    Since I'm an English major at IU, I get to read a lot of different literature. Poe and Hawthorne are my favs.
    I took a different tack when reading the Scarlett Letter. I decided to read it as individual truths instead of a social statement about religion. Each of the main characters had their own personal truths. From the Reverend to Scarlett's daughter, each individual's truth was laid bare as Hawthorne visited the characters.
    I did a paper on this and was given an A and a request from several English professors to use my research as a study guide for Hawthorne.
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    A modern classic that remains one of my all time favorite novels - Cormac McCarthy's 'All the Pretty Horses'.

    From the '40s, the Gormenghast Trilogy ('Titus Groan', 'Gormenghast' and 'Titus Alone') by Mervyn Peake. Mesmerizing language unlike anything I've ever read.
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    A. When I worked, 95% of my reading was non-fiction and job-related. Now that I'm older than most trees the percentages have reversed.

    B. I re-read Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner and while it was still a great book it didn't have the impact, for personal reasons, that it did when I read it when I was 40.

    C. It's a good thing you found an old copy because the new ones might have been edited to eliminate politically incorrect words. I'm 78 and while the forbidden words change the "word police" are a constant.

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    I remember reading 'Tom Sawyer Abroad', which was Twain's sequel to 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' when I was a kid - I think it had been my father's copy from when he was a kid - and I know he wrote another sequel called 'Tom Sawyer, Detective', which I've never read. Apparently he began yet another book, 'Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians', but never completed it.

    What I find interesting is that other writers over the years, particularly in the last twenty or thirty, have published either sequels to or re-tellings of the story of TAOHF; I know of at least five. Some folks view that kind of thing with horror, I guess, but if it's done respectfully - and especially if it's done well - it can be a good thing. I recently found out about a sequel to Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, published in 2014, called 'Pride of the Mohicans', which I'm looking forward to reading. As I mentioned earlier, I've read many, many "continuation stories" (as they're sometimes called) involving Conan Doyle's characters, and some of the very best have been written in the last five years by a lady named Bonnie MacBird.
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