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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I read Crime and Punishment in my mid teens and it completely blew me away, although i do think it's quite a young person's novel - in much the same way that I think Kafka is a young person's writer. It's all about intense situations and philosophical dilemmas which seem very important and profound when young, but which seem slightly less so as you get older. Which isn't to say that it still isn't a great book, just not quite the life changing event when I re-read it a few years ago to the one I had at about sixteen.
Moby Dick is one that I've had on my shelf for ages and still not properly read. I've gotten so far with it a number of times, but always get sidetracked and end up not finishing it.
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The young person's novel is one of my least-favourite of book categories - interesting you'd put Kafka in there though. I was reading an essay about him just today. And, contrarily enough, I haven't read him since 'the great wanky book summer of '99'. But then you say it seems less profound and important - that's true of most things, surely?
Anyway, I digress. I can't think of any novels I've always intended to read because I'm still this side of 30 and I'm thinking, health-and-eyesight willing, I've got a good 40 years of reading ahead of me. I know that's a very dull thing to say, but I've read a sizeable proportion of 'classics' already to the point where I might do something ridiculous like start reading everything Hardy wrote.