To those of us who haven't read it (due to not being American or for other reasons), as well as to those who have read it but are curious what an adult re-reading it would make of it.
Please do.
That's an interesting review... I like how you write entire paragraphs about various thematic points and blunders, and then in the final paragraph in a single sentence casually mention that everything else was crap, too.
Can't say I'd heard about the book, and sounds like that's a good thing.
It does make me wonder who's going to be the first on this board to review that trilogy that I *have* been hearing ad nauseam about lately, and of which I've seen nauseating numbers of copies in the bookstores both in the US and here. Generally I'm willing enough to read hyped books and write a review, just for the sake of judging for myself, but I'm inclined to give it a pass on this one.
Well, I rarely copy/paste reviews here anymore for a variety of reasons, but I might make an exception.
Please do.
I wonder if I should do the same with that review of Save the Pearls that I wrote earlier today 
That's an interesting review... I like how you write entire paragraphs about various thematic points and blunders, and then in the final paragraph in a single sentence casually mention that everything else was crap, too.
Can't say I'd heard about the book, and sounds like that's a good thing. It does make me wonder who's going to be the first on this board to review that trilogy that I *have* been hearing ad nauseam about lately, and of which I've seen nauseating numbers of copies in the bookstores both in the US and here. Generally I'm willing enough to read hyped books and write a review, just for the sake of judging for myself, but I'm inclined to give it a pass on this one.
After several paragraphs excoriating that book, I was just tired of writing about it and thought I'd just dismiss the other poor elements, the ones that weren't offensive except to my tastes as a reader, in order to keep it under 1500 words.
As for that trilogy to which you allude, I hope that's not the next thing I'm pressured to read/review
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Where the Red Fern Grows
- 21/08/2012 10:33:29 PM
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Re: Where the Red Fern Grows
- 22/08/2012 07:50:48 PM
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Ha!
- 22/08/2012 09:43:04 PM
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It seems like it's a classic children's book, so could be interesting.
- 22/08/2012 11:02:53 PM
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Well....
- 22/08/2012 11:36:42 PM
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Save the Pearls?That's that Poor Persecuted White People/Black Face novel that got Twitter incensed?
- 23/08/2012 01:28:05 AM
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I read it soon after my first dogs -- rabbit-hunting beagles -- died, when I was ~12.
- 07/09/2012 05:35:35 PM
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