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To: wagglebee

What disturbs me is that they are reading fifth-rate junk like this instead of the classics that used to be read in our schools.

When I was in ninth grade we read "Anna Karenina." It also has some disturbing ideas in it. But it's a great novel, with a serious moral point of view, revealing what the consequences of adultery are.

"Girl Interrupted" is just plain junk.


16 posted on 02/20/2006 5:17:31 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
When I was in ninth grade we read "Anna Karenina." It also has some disturbing ideas in it. But it's a great novel, with a serious moral point of view, revealing what the consequences of adultery are. "Girl Interrupted" is just plain junk.

But this junk is written by a woman. "Anna Karenina" was written by a man.

27 posted on 02/20/2006 5:21:17 PM PST by A. Pole (Dzerzhinsky: There are no innocent people.There are only such who weren't examined in the proper way)
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To: Cicero

I could not agree with you more. There are countless great novels that kids could read.

A few years ago I read a couple of Harry Potter books, wanted to see what all the fuss was about (plus for research on style as I have some writing plans). What amazed me as much as the nasty content was the two dimensional shallow junk writing. Like comic books without pictures.


69 posted on 02/20/2006 5:36:44 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: Cicero
"Anna Karenina."

Certainly sparks an interest in trains.

237 posted on 02/20/2006 7:15:07 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Cicero
When I was in ninth grade we read "Anna Karenina."

Wow, in the ninth grade? Where did you go to school?

I didn't read Anna Karenina until I was well into my 20s. And it certainly was never required reading anywhere I went to school!

But I agree, "it's a great novel, with a serious moral point of view, revealing what the consequences of adultery are."

429 posted on 02/22/2006 9:27:35 AM PST by shhrubbery! (Max Boot: Joe Wilson has sold more whoppers than Burger King)
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To: Cicero

"When I was in ninth grade we read "Anna Karenina.""

I tried to read a Russian novel once. As far as I can tell, people with unpronounceable names talked to each other for 750 pages, and then someone's aunt died.


463 posted on 02/22/2006 1:23:40 PM PST by BeHoldAPaleHorse (Tagline deleted at request of moderator.)
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