“i certainly dislike that book!!! till the last sentence i was wondering where's da big event in here!!! and there r so many other things that makes me dislike it:S:S”
“I had to read this for an English paper, wouldn't have picked it up otherwise. Lots of description, not much story. I did enjoy it, although it is more poetry than prose.”
“I'm surprised to see so many people don't like this book. I love it! One of the best. Does anyone else agree with me? Beautifully written. Great love story without any real love. My favorite part is that it admires the simplicity of motherhood and womanhood. Really romantic. ”
“I quit reading after the first few chapters...hope I didn't miss anything!”
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“My guilt at not liking this book was immense and puzzling. I am glad there were others who felt the same.----I even read it as a literature consuming adult.”
“My kids would so agree with you, Joshua! This was required reading in high school here in the Midwest, and all three of them loathed the writing style of Cather. My older son said, "how many sentences does it take to describe a blade of grass blowing in the wind?!" Maybe it's an age thing. p.s. the plains of the midwest ARE flat and boring. If they had mountains, they wouldn't be plains.”
“The story of the wedding party is just terrible! I kept reading it over and over, certain that I had read in wrong. How could Pavel have done that?”
“It aint that its old, just well written, look for quality in modern work. it is still there. try Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, Clyde Egderton, Bailey White, Barbara Kingsolver, Harriet Doer, Lee Smith, Alice Hoffman (some of it), and others. It is still there, just 125,000 new books and 25 good ones every year:)”
“Stories like this and her others make me wish the "modern" crap would spend more time valuing simple and real living. So much entertainment today is based on conflicts/revenge/selfish immoral decisions. In the Cather-verse, people just do what people should do to see each other well off without all of the delusional self stroking. And what she portrays is not some idealistic/unreachable Utopia, it just wouldn't make for good wifeswap fodder. . . ”
