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View Poll Results: What was your favorite Louisa May Alcott girl's book?
Little Women 33 63.46%
Little Men 5 9.62%
Jo's Boys 1 1.92%
Eight Cousins 7 13.46%
Rose in Bloom 0 0%
An Old-Fashioned Girl 4 7.69%
Jack and Jill 0 0%
Under the Lilacs 1 1.92%
Other 1 1.92%
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Old 06-18-2011, 05:53 PM   #16
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Which was the book of your heart when you read them as a girl/boy/person of any age? I'm limiting myself to the Orchard House Editions titles that were in print when I read them; if you pick other, please elaborate. And I know that what is included under the title of Little Women in the USA is in two volumes in Britain, Little Women/Good Wives.

In my case, An Old-Fashioned Girl edges out Jack and Jill. Rose in Bloom is third.
little women, and although I also read her other books, it is my favorite book ever, the one I could survive with stranded on a desert island. This book and my dvd of «meet me in St Louis»...
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Old 06-18-2011, 06:08 PM   #17
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I read Little Women when about 8 and Good Wives a year or two later. I put LW, as being her iconic book. I first learned of the existence of the American Civil War from reading LW.

As a child I wasn't all that appreciative of LW. I liked Jo -- I suppose one is meant to -- but disliked Beth and Amy. And of course as a child I didn't think much of Jo's marriage. For me as an adult it rings fairly true.
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I won't apologize for describing them as girls books, since while I read the Hardy Boys, for example, they were clearly boys books. But I apologize for being exclusionary in my question and will amend.
Not a problem here. These may be "girls books", but I would argue that they go beyond that simple stereotype. They're classic books for youth of any age, IMNSHO.
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Yes, agree. Just as Tom Sawyer is not simply a 'boy's book'.
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Loved Eight Cousins the best I think, though I also wore out my copy of Jack and Jill. I guess my other two favorites are Rose in Bloom and Little Women.
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I read Little Men in the 1960's. I've read the rest, but LM remains my favorite.
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As a child I wasn't all that appreciative of LW. I liked Jo -- I suppose one is meant to -- but disliked Beth and Amy. And of course as a child I didn't think much of Jo's marriage. For me as an adult it rings fairly true.
I disliked Beth, but thought that Amy's character became quite likeable later on. Started off liking Jo, but started to dislike her - given how difficult she'd found the restrictions of being female in a male-orientated world, I was quite cross that she thought 'her boys' were so wonderful and she was so dismissive of all the younger female characters. Seemed she'd gone over to the dark side!
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Have only read Little Women, so that had to get my vote. The Others are on my TBR list
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I checked "other," because I haven't read any. Will probably get to Little Women eventually. I free copy came with my Nook. After that, we'll see...
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I've managed to avoid all the books and all the movies. I'm not disparaging them, they just never seemed to be something I would be interested in.
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