ARGH I HATE THAT BOOK ARGH ARGH MOST USELESS BOOK EVER!
Seriously. I am hard to please but usually fairly forgiving; there are very few books or movies that I actually regret reading/seeing. But I would very dearly like to get back the hours spent reading, discussing, and testing on Ethan Frome in high school.
Hahaha, we never watched the movie, but we spent an altogether ludicrous amount of time going through the text, after which I had every symbol and branded into my mind.
Hahahahahaha OH ~*PICKLE DISH*~. See, now I'm kind of horrified that I had up until this point forgotten all about the book, as it is one of the bleakest and soul-crushing pieces of literature I have ever read (I suppose I can understand its ~ literary merit ~ in terms of describing the ~desolate landscape of the human soul~, but I'm pretty sure I did not need it pointed out with such enthusiasm) . :(
(INCIDENTALLY how have you been doing? I am trapped in college at the moment, swamped by hideous amounts of homework and obligation-- already I miss childhood, woe.)
I never watched the movie either (they made a movie? HOW? Do people use it to put fussy children to sleep?); I was referring to a couple other films that stole part of my life away. But that's another matter.
WHY do we have to study this book in school? What does it say? Surely something with this much literary reverence paid to it should have something profound to say about the human experience beyond 'Life sucks and then you die [or possibly not die and live instead a bleak and ironic half-life that makes you long for death].' There are plenty of 'life sucks and then you die' books out there with good characterization, insights into life, the universe, and everything, and maybe even actual events.* WHY ETHAN FROME? Unless it's part of a vast educational conspiracy to make kids believe all great literature is a waste of time. *This is not absolutely requisite because Copenhagen is one of my very favourite pieces of literature (albeit a play, not a novel) and only one thing actually happens in it. Even that thing is in doubt
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I am so glad that someone else hates that book to the degree that I do. Though it is fun to horrify those who have not read it: "They sled into a tree. No, seriously."
Do you mention that this is the only thing that happens in the entire book, and you have to wade through two hundred pages of navel-gazing and empty angst to get there?
Oh wait, also, a pickle dish breaks. AAAAGH.
I am similarly glad to know I am not the only Frome hater.
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Seriously. I am hard to please but usually fairly forgiving; there are very few books or movies that I actually regret reading/seeing. But I would very dearly like to get back the hours spent reading, discussing, and testing on Ethan Frome in high school.
ARGH PICKLE DISH ARGH.
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Hahahahahaha OH ~*PICKLE DISH*~. See, now I'm kind of horrified that I had up until this point forgotten all about the book, as it is one of the bleakest and soul-crushing pieces of literature I have ever read (I suppose I can understand its ~ literary merit ~ in terms of describing the ~desolate landscape of the human soul~, but I'm pretty sure I did not need it pointed out with such enthusiasm) . :(
(INCIDENTALLY how have you been doing? I am trapped in college at the moment, swamped by hideous amounts of homework and obligation-- already I miss childhood, woe.)
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WHY do we have to study this book in school? What does it say? Surely something with this much literary reverence paid to it should have something profound to say about the human experience beyond 'Life sucks and then you die [or possibly not die and live instead a bleak and ironic half-life that makes you long for death].' There are plenty of 'life sucks and then you die' books out there with good characterization, insights into life, the universe, and everything, and maybe even actual events.* WHY ETHAN FROME? Unless it's part of a vast educational conspiracy to make kids believe all great literature is a waste of time.
*This is not absolutely requisite because Copenhagen is one of my very favourite pieces of literature (albeit a play, not a novel) and only one thing actually happens in it. Even that thing is in doubt ( ... )
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Bad 10th grade english memories.
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Okay...I feel better now.
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Oh wait, also, a pickle dish breaks. AAAAGH.
I am similarly glad to know I am not the only Frome hater.
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