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40. Hawaii - James Michener

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What is your favorite classic novel? [View all] IrishEyes Oct 2022 OP

The Three Musketeers. Twoflower Oct 2022 #1

I read that. It is a great book. IrishEyes Oct 2022 #22

Lord of the Rings trilogy. Elessar Zappa Oct 2022 #2

It counts as a classic as far as I'm concerned. IrishEyes Oct 2022 #23

besides the bible in any of its hundreds of different versions? nt msongs Oct 2022 #3

Anything by Dickens. LakeArenal Oct 2022 #4

I read Gone with the Wind when I was younger. IrishEyes Oct 2022 #24

Actually anything by Rosamunde Pilcher, LakeArenal Oct 2022 #30

I also like books by Belva Plain. LakeArenal Oct 2022 #39

Egad! I detested Gone with the Wind. Coventina Oct 2022 #78

🤷🏼‍♀️ LakeArenal Oct 2022 #81

I know. If everyone liked the same thing, it would be a boring world. Coventina Oct 2022 #83

😉 LakeArenal Oct 2022 #85

A Tale of Two Cities. n/t whathehell Oct 2022 #5

Me too. Chainfire Oct 2022 #9

Also... Tikki Oct 2022 #12

..Great minds think alike! whathehell Oct 2022 #33

I have copy on my bookshelf that I plan to read. IrishEyes Oct 2022 #25

Cool! whathehell Oct 2022 #32

Uncle Tom's Cabin. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2022 #6

Thank you for saying this... First Speaker Oct 2022 #45

Agree. Very powerful and very readable after all these years. wnylib Oct 2022 #50

The reason I finally got around to reading it was that PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2022 #70

Good going that you were able to wnylib Oct 2022 #71

Your mother was born in that era when infant and childhood PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2022 #72

I love Great Expectations and the Count of Monte Crisco, two of my favorites. GumboYaYa Oct 2022 #7

I'm sure it was auto correct leftieNanner Oct 2022 #18

I can't even blame autocorrect, I am just distracted this week. GumboYaYa Oct 2022 #58

One of Stephen Colbert's names for T**** was "Count of Mostly Crisco" Coventina Oct 2022 #79

I read the Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Finn IrishEyes Oct 2022 #21

I enjoyed all the Somerset Maugham novels and short stories. MLAA Oct 2022 #8

Me too. Except the weird interlude in Handful of Dust of the Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #13

I don't remember that one. MLAA Oct 2022 #14

I'm so sorry! That was Waugh! Who I also love. Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #15

I was about to go order it! Haha! MLAA Oct 2022 #19

Zorba the Greek SheltieLover Oct 2022 #10

Thank you. I posted in there as well. IrishEyes Oct 2022 #27

Yw! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #43

How Green Was My Valley. Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #11

I added it to my list. Thank you. IrishEyes Oct 2022 #29

Moby Dick Sneederbunk Oct 2022 #16

Agreed ironflange Oct 2022 #47

Martin Chuzzlewit The Blue Flower Oct 2022 #17

What is the most recent year is a book allowed to be classic ? Tetrachloride Oct 2022 #20

You can define it however you want. IrishEyes Oct 2022 #26

Anything Dostoyevsky... Karadeniz Oct 2022 #28

I agree. zanana1 Oct 2022 #59

I hated many of the classics from HS... electric_blue68 Oct 2022 #31

Almost anything by Hemingway. lpbk2713 Oct 2022 #34

The Foundation Trilogy. Isaac Asimov Lochloosa Oct 2022 #35

Robert Heinlein's "Citizen of the Galaxy" Tetrachloride Oct 2022 #36

Good question sorcrow Oct 2022 #37

Far From the Madding Crowd. tanyev Oct 2022 #38

Hawaii - James Michener Skittles Oct 2022 #40

I have read Hawaii...I remember saying I am going to finish that book... Tikki Oct 2022 #44

If you want to try reading a book by Michener that wnylib Oct 2022 #52

I loved The Source. Michener books are a series of novellas yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #64

I liked his other books, too, but wnylib Oct 2022 #65

I read it in high school Skittles Oct 2022 #55

The Simpsons Michener gag: LudwigPastorius Oct 2022 #54

LOL Skittles Oct 2022 #56

At least he skipped the first 4 billion years and got right to it! LudwigPastorius Oct 2022 #57

Haha! I've made the joke that all Michener's novels begin: Coventina Oct 2022 #80

that is cool, I love those prints Skittles Oct 2022 #84

Hawaii was the first of his books that I read. madamesilverspurs Oct 2022 #89

I confess I still need to read The Source Skittles Oct 2022 #91

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich MLAA Oct 2022 #41

I'll second that. Great book MadScot Oct 2022 #61

Dune sarge43 Oct 2022 #42

That's an excellent choice. Elessar Zappa Oct 2022 #74

Wuthering Heights First Speaker Oct 2022 #46

It's impossible for me to have a single favorite but two forever favorites are r/o SoBlueInFL Oct 2022 #48

The Red and the Black. It was Al GORE's, too. UTUSN Oct 2022 #49

I don't know if James Michener's books are considered classics yet, blue neen Oct 2022 #51

I like the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, wnylib Oct 2022 #53

Jude the Obscure RobinA Oct 2022 #60

Dracula but not Frankenstein? Interesting. malthaussen Oct 2022 #62

A Room With A View by E.M. Forster catbyte Oct 2022 #63

The Old Man and the Sea Emile Oct 2022 #66

"Tale of 2 Cities" kairos12 Oct 2022 #67

The Once and Future King by E.B. White Marthe48 Oct 2022 #68

Gulliver's Travels surrealAmerican Oct 2022 #69

Trinity by Leon Uris. Boomerproud Oct 2022 #73

Frank Herbert's area51 Oct 2022 #75

1984 by Orwell... SKKY Oct 2022 #76

Winds of War and... 3catwoman3 Oct 2022 #77

On Wouk . . . madamesilverspurs Oct 2022 #88

Those 2 books teach the history of WWII better than... 3catwoman3 Oct 2022 #93

Emma by Jane Austen is my favorite. Coventina Oct 2022 #82

To Kill A Mockingbird. yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #86

Of Mice and Men VGNonly Oct 2022 #87

Maybe Hermann Hesse's "Steppenwolf." Harker Oct 2022 #90

Pretty much anything Mr.Bill Oct 2022 #92