Agh. I hated The Scarlet Letter. And I had to read it in junior high and again in high school, as there were two different curriculums (curricula?), since jh was a public school, and hs was private school.
And I read Last of the Mohicans about three years ago on my own, because I liked the movie and figured I should read the book to know the differences between the two. Now I know. The movie has action. The book is dreadfully boring and unrealistic. No more James Fenimore Cooper novels for me. Ever. I slogged my way through it out of a sheer sense that I had to finish this, because I hate people who see the movie and don't read the book, and I wasn't going to be one of them.
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on 2006-08-18 01:03 pm (UTC)And I read Last of the Mohicans about three years ago on my own, because I liked the movie and figured I should read the book to know the differences between the two. Now I know. The movie has action. The book is dreadfully boring and unrealistic. No more James Fenimore Cooper novels for me. Ever. I slogged my way through it out of a sheer sense that I had to finish this, because I hate people who see the movie and don't read the book, and I wasn't going to be one of them.