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7/15/2011

A book I really did not like.

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Ethan Frome is a book I really did not like.  What bothered me the most about this book is that Ethan Frome, the main character seems to wimpy.  The technical term for this is emasculated...in other words, made to be not masculine!  While reading the story I was constantly finding myself annoyed and frustrated by Ethan's lack of personal dignity, lack of initiative, his fear of his wife, and his apparent inability to make a decision.  I suppose it is possible that this is a credit to the author, Edith Wharton, but since she was a woman who grew up in this kind of atmosphere I tend to think that it is a reflection of her opinion of men.

I had the feeling the whole way through the story that the author had a general disdain for men, a desire to make men, as a group, seem to be powerless and weak.  Each chapter she wrote seemed to add fuel to the fire of my opinion and provided, what I thought to be, more and more evidence of her opinion. 

Being a man, I felt insulted by the tone of the book.  I realize that there are sad, self-conscious, people who waver in their mind much of the time and seem incapable of making even the most simple decision.  I realize that many people grow up in difficult situation and may have learned to act this way in order to survive a difficult childhood.  I also realize that an ending where Ethan would learn to stand up for himself, make a decision, or at least make a choice, might be difficult to believe given his personality flaws.  When I read I want to learn, I don't want to be depressed and irritated.  I want to grow, I want to grow up, I want to learn from other people's examples and gain courage to become a better, stronger person.  Reading Ethan Frome did not do that for me.

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Zachary Norman link
7/15/2011 02:11:21 am

The most boring book I ever had to read was Patty Reed's doll. It was sooooooo boring. If my teacher saw me posing this, she would scold me. After we finished the real school year I finished reading it. I mean some parts were exciting, but history and I do not go well together. I'm pretty good at history, but it's my least favorite subject.

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Cait
7/15/2011 02:16:40 am

One of the books that I didn't like was about aliens capturing children, I felt like the author was trying to humilate Children, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING I THE STORY! IT WAS ALL SO MIXED UP... AND IT GAVE ME A POOR HEADACHE.

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corwin
7/15/2011 02:27:30 am

I hated this book called The Indian and the Cupboard because once I tried reading them but there was this boy named Patrick was the boy who owned the cupboards friend and he would just not shut up and was so dumb.Once when when he came over because they figured up that the plastic figures to life,he turned to life a cow boy when his friend already had a cowboy.

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Julieanna
7/15/2011 04:43:42 am

I don't hate any books right now. If I do, I will tell you about it.

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Bryan
7/15/2011 04:46:30 am

The book i hate the most is Harry potter 1 because it was boring. its just about some kid who trys to find a stone before the guy who killed his parents uses it to kill him, and the author takes to long to say the story

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yayRayShell:)
7/15/2011 04:47:23 am

The most annoying book I possibly have ever read was the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Greg is really stupid. He thinks he will be famous even he will hardly get a job. He does not have any talents. He's not smart. He's not athletic. He's not good with girls. He's not good to his family. He's not good to his "best friend". There are many more qualities that do not need to be mentioned. Yet, he still thinks he is going to be famous one day.

He also claims that there will be robots in the future who will help him to his homework. That is a factor of his supreme stupidity. The point of homework is for one to learn not get it over with.

It is possible that the book is trying to give an "optimistic" point of view of anything can happen and whatnot. But I still think it is really lame, stupid, and has an empty promise. Greg will most likely end up on the streets as a hermit for having no talent at all.

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Leah
7/15/2011 04:48:40 am

There was one book I HATED with a passion . It was called The Witches by the author who wrote Matilda. It was my friend Marissa and Ana who were reading it and we had to read with the class in 6th grade. It was about this kid who was raised by witches and he was just a tiny little boy that couldn't do anything. He was always put down by them too. All we wanted to do was hurry and get out of that class. We only stood there almost everyday for 3o minutes reading that book.

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Michelli C.
7/15/2011 04:48:47 am

I really hated this book called Do Stars Have Points? The book was filled with boring stuff that was kinda off topic. I didn't like it as much as someone who seems to like. It just talks about space and other stuff out of the solar system. It just says subtitles as question and it shows fake pictures.

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Kaityln
7/15/2011 04:49:30 am

The most boring book I have ever read was bridge to terbithia. They had such a long introduction. I told myself why doesn't the author just get to the point!!! UUUUGGGG!!!! It was so annoying that I stopped reading it at the second chapter!!! That's how annoying it was!!! I hate that book

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ryan wu
7/15/2011 04:49:46 am

I read a book called Jack the Jerk. It was about a dumb boy being mutated and eating town residents. It was so stupid. There wasn't any point or mural. At the end, he ate the author and the President. Then these aliens came and thought he was a girl and abducted him. And now he is in space, wife to an extra-terrestrial.

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Misty Chen
7/15/2011 04:50:42 am

One of the books I didn't like was called Marvin and the Great North Woods.My teacher made me read the same limit of pages everyday.Every morning when I go to her class I say"I'd rather eat garbage than read this boring book.The main reason I didn't like this book was because I didn't get it at all!!! First a boy name Marvin lived with his family but there was a sickness called the influenza so his parents just sent him there for just one reason.But since Marvin was still little they should have just sent him there so he could grow up AND keep him away from influenza.On his way to the logging camp his parents have sent him away to, his father's partner just gave him a little tour around and then gave him a job to do.But after the influenza was gone,he came back still weak and little It was such a short story I still don't know who he met there, what his job was, and how did he communicate with people if they didn't speak English.That's why I didn't like Marvin and the Great North Woods.I didn't even like it at all and I never wanted to read it.

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