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I'm...curious how this will do in the box office. Everyone I've ever talked to who read the book described it with such odium and venom. I don't think I've ever met someone who actually liked it.

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 Necroshea wrote:
I'm...curious how this will do in the box office. Everyone I've ever talked to who read the book described it with such odium and venom. I don't think I've ever met someone who actually liked it.


I guess I never really realized how many people hated it. I loved it when I read it in high school, as did my fiance and a few other people I know.
   
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Anime High School

People really don't like this book? I can't believe that. Read it again!

Like I said, I liked almost all of the books I was obliged to read. But, if I didn't like something, I could probably have explained why, and I doubt I would have been looked at strangely. It was nice being the smartest person in the class. I specifically switched out of "honors" classes, because I didn't like the attitude of the students in them, and I wasn't comfortable being afraid to speak, or more to the point, not being the smartest person in the class. It always felt like I was skipping along the top of the class, dropping bits of introspective and deep insight when it felt appropriate.


 
   
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Somewhere in the steamy jungles of the south...

 Captain Fantastic wrote:
People really don't like this book? I can't believe that. Read it again!

Like I said, I liked almost all of the books I was obliged to read. But, if I didn't like something, I could probably have explained why, and I doubt I would have been looked at strangely. It was nice being the smartest person in the class. I specifically switched out of "honors" classes, because I didn't like the attitude of the students in them, and I wasn't comfortable being afraid to speak, or more to the point, not being the smartest person in the class. It always felt like I was skipping along the top of the class, dropping bits of introspective and deep insight when it felt appropriate.


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Haven't read the book, only seen the movie with Robert Redford. It was darn good, so I don't think this will top it.

For some reason the remakes of classic movies generally suck giant donkey schlong.

As for what was read in school, the only book I didn't like was Scarlet Letter and Dracula. I would rather watch fumeless paint dry then read either of those again.

Ugh.

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 insaniak wrote:
 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I think the biggest problem from school reading is this.
You cant criticize the book, you are told you have to love it you have to think it is a master piece.

I think that comes down to your English teacher. I hated The Old Man and the Sea, and my teacher had no problem with that so long as I could explain what I didn't like about it... which I did. Scored top grades for a review that essentially boiled down to 'This could have been written by a 10-year-old'.


I've never understood the hate for a book just because you were forced to read it in school, though. I mean, I hated some of the books we did, but because they were crap, not because we were forced to read them. We also did a few books that I thoroughly enjoyed, like the Lord of the Flies (which I had already read a copy to tatters well before we did it in high school) and the Machine Gunners (which we did while I was in the middle of working my way through everything Robert Westall had ever written anyway).


Agreed. I was forced to read Shakespeare, and became an avid fan, reading all the plays in the book.
Great Gatsby still sucked little hairless ratballs though.


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 Captain Fantastic wrote:
People really don't like this book? I can't believe that. Read it again!

Like I said, I liked almost all of the books I was obliged to read. But, if I didn't like something, I could probably have explained why, and I doubt I would have been looked at strangely. It was nice being the smartest person in the class. I specifically switched out of "honors" classes, because I didn't like the attitude of the students in them, and I wasn't comfortable being afraid to speak, or more to the point, not being the smartest person in the class. It always felt like I was skipping along the top of the class, dropping bits of introspective and deep insight when it felt appropriate.



It doesn't help when you want to put each and every character against the wall in the name of the Revolution.

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