Not good to read

[beccaelizabeth]

I finished reading that book for class, 'Beloved'.
Things start broken, get more broken, and by the end are all broke to pieces.
Why anybody want to read a book like that?



I can see ways the themes connect up to the other assigned texts - bits from the Ibsen, like women's work, and bits from Great Expectations, like gravestones and names and reading and searching for identity and wanting something from someone and interpretation and misinterpretation. Lots of things. I can see why make it a text for class.

It just baffles me why anyone would *want* to read it.

Miserable book. All about broken. All kinds of bad in it.

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[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

It's one of my favourite books of all time, I thought it was absolutely beautiful (I spent ages raving about it with one of the girls I live with just last week). Different strokes, I guess...