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  3. The Crucible is good, but i find plays hard to read on my own. It can also be really boring if you don’t like the time period.

    Red Badge of Courage is supposed to be pretty good, but it sounds boring to me.

    Thoreau is mind-blowingly boring in all respects, so have fun getting through Walden. if you make it, I think you’ll get some good thoughts out of it though.

    The Confessions is supposed to be really good. I want to read it. I love philosophy.

    That’s all I know.

  4. Crucible is very good, as was Walden. I’m not a big Mellville fan, but I’ve never read the two that are there.

  6. I really enjoyed the Crucible. It’s a really good story, though very sad. Some of the characters are crazy, but some are good people. I would say it’s worth reading. It’s about the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts in the late 1600’s. So it’s based on a true story.

    I just started reading the Red Badge of Courage! It’s pretty good so far, but I haven’t finished it yet. Like the Crucible, it’s about American history.

    I’ve never read any of the others on your list.

  7. Walden is non-fiction and it’s about when Henry David Thoreau lived in the woods alone and the writing he did while out of society. The Crucible is about the Salem Witch Trials. They both were pretty good. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher, so I’m guessing that that’s what it’s about.

    Other classics you might like are The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne which is about Puritans and adultery and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, which is a romance and VERY good!

  9. Not read any of these but can I say thanks for the list! I have a collection of classics and these ones I will look out for too!

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