Comments | shootingstarr7: Booking through Thursday: Um, yeah. It was good. But I didn't love it.

shootingstarr7

Booking through Thursday: Um, yeah. It was good. But I didn't love it.

Oct 02, 2008 12:03

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BTT anonymous October 2 2008, 19:23:11 UTC

Although I did not Love them, I liked both you've listed. I have three other titles for my answer. Come check it out. Happy BTT.

Re: BTT shootingstarr7 October 2 2008, 22:55:00 UTC

Thanks for stopping by.

bluestockingbb October 2 2008, 20:11:19 UTC

I chose Moby Dick.

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shootingstarr7 October 2 2008, 22:54:42 UTC

Moby Dick is one of those novels I've been putting off forever because I know I'm not going to love it. It's one of my "someday" books.

anonymous October 2 2008, 20:37:09 UTC

I love both of those--Grapes better than Huck--but my American Lit students in general do NOT like Huck Finn.
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shootingstarr7 October 2 2008, 20:53:26 UTC

I might need to give Grapes another chance, since I was 16 when I read it. But it really wasn't my favorite.

bookloversdiary October 3 2008, 02:42:29 UTC

I'm not a fan of Steinbeck in general but Grapes in Wrath is probably my least favorite of his works that I've read. I didn't appreciate what seemed to be Steinbeck's many seemingly pointless tangents. The big one I remember is what seemed like sixty pages about a turtle trying to cross the road. My friend and I actually got into trouble during that class discussion because we were laughing at it (is it not kind of funny in an ironic sort of way that one driver would swerve to avoid the turtle and the second driver would swerve to aim for the turtle?? we thought so).

I don't remember much about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but I think I probably appreciated it more than anything I had to read by Steinbeck.