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    Rename the classics...

    If your opinion had been asked about the title of a classic(s), what would you have suggested? And what title(s) do you find completely appropriate and would never change?

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    Let me start.

    Pride and Prejudice would be better off being called A Story of Obsessing about Marriage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick_Bateman View Post
    The Stranger - The only book you will ever have to read in order to be awesome
    I genuinely Lol'd.

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    Hamlet- Prince Asks Questions, Frets, Ends Up Killing Everyone

    Macbeth- Conflicted, Ambitious Warrior Kills Everyone After Wife Nags

    King Lear- King Plays Favorites With Daughters And They All Die For It

    Othello- A Black General In A White World Gets Jealous And Kills His Wife

    Titus Andronicus- EVERYONE Dies

    Romeo And Juliet- Lovers Love, Die, And Spawns A Million Bad Movies

    Coriolanus- Proud Leader Is Loved, Hated, Loved, Hated Again, And Dies

    Timon Of Athens- Wealthy Man Spends All His Money, Hates Life, Dies

    Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...

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    Mrs Dalloway to Nothing Much At All.

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    To Kill a Mockingbird to To Kill a GCSE English Student.
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    Love it!

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    Never change Catcher in the Rye <3

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    Update 1984 to 2084
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lokasenna;961441[I
    Frankenstein[/I] to Frankenstein: The name of the man, not the monster, you clot.
    Now why didn't Shelly just slap that on...
    Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...

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    The Inferno to Mr. Dante's Hellish Hall of Fame!
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