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Originally Posted by bevdeforges
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.
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You were lucky to get
Moll Flanders. It was much too risqué for school children when I was at school. I read it on my own, of course, as well as
Roxana,
Robinson Crusoe and
A Journal of the Plague Year. I rather liked Defoe at that time. I tried
Moll Flanders again more recently and found it much less appealing than I did the first time.