do u read classics...?

I read some. If you read them for pleasure, they tend to be much better than the ones teachers force you to read. I liked Dracula, I like Victor Hugo, I like Dumas, but my teachers never made me read any of them.

i read...but not novels. i prefer to read books related with technology adn i have not read many fictional novels. if i have to choose, however i would prefer to read a novel of todays times. i dont relate much to the past adn the classic stories and stuff...

I belong to a book-club that sends me classics evey other month. I have read most of them. I enjoy reading most everything. I enjoy classics and modern novels about the same. Maybe i prefer the modern ones a little bit.

yes but i find them a lot harder to read then the new ones.

I do enjoy classics I particularly like the Bronte sisters and had to study Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte for my English Literature A' level. I agree that they take you to another world that's different to your own and that's great and a sign of a good book.
There are some good modern writers however and it's good to keep up with modern literature as it's always evolving and changing.

I don't read much nowadays but my hubby reads every day, he likes both he liked war and peace and Les miserables and crime ans punishment he also like horror, dean koontz and James Patterson, I think that is why he is so smart, and I am so glad my 3 boys took their brains from their dad lol xx

I try to read classics...I enjoy reading F Scott Fitzgerald and authors around that era...I also like Steinbeck and Hemmingway...

Yes, I read classics, more or less incessantly. Anything from Aesop on.

The distinction between modern writers and earlier writers is pretty drastic. I find modern writing pretty primitive, nowhere near as experimental, and the topics much too geared to markets. The modern use of language is pedantic, and the styles are predictable.

I write myself, so I'm probably pretty picky, but honestly...between the apparently compulsory sleaze, the robot-like story formatting and the banal dialogs, where are the books? Nobody told the old writers "how to write", and they were much better writers.

Haha. I totally agree with the previous comment. I read both, enjoy the classics more. I adore Tolstoy, Nabokov, Hugo, Stienbeck, Faulkner, etc. The classics are much better woven, as far as characters, plot, pacing, etc. I read more modern books not as often, for just that reason. They seem hastily written, without thought to the details and nuances that the classics are perfect examples of.