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Originally Posted by stormdream
HA! I love that Ethan Frome was mentioned. I'd barely gotten through the first paragraph when I thought of all the ways I wanted to destroy that book. My English teacher fawning all over it didn't help. "It's boring," I said.
She looked at me in horror. "This is fine literature."
No wonder I ended up reading zombie novels...
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Ah, a kindred spirit. I remember almost nothing about
Ethan Frome except how much I hated reading it. Oh, and isn't there something about a sled at the end and everyone dies - or somebody dies - or something like that?
I've gone back and re-read a few of the books we were required to read in high school, and have been pleasantly surprised to find I liked them much more as an adult. (And how much I missed in the first reading!):
Of Human Bondage,
Moll Flanders, and
the Mayor of Casterbridge. But I swear I will never touch
Ethan Frome - not with a barge pole. My memories of it are just too negative.