My Antonia
My Antonia
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#0My Antonia
Posted: 1/4/06 at 8:09pmI have to read this book for English and I was wondering if anyone else has read it. It's by Willa Cather... not my favorite book by any means but not bad.
#1re: My Antonia
Posted: 1/4/06 at 8:27pmI remember reading it in highschool - and I HATED it - second only to Pride and Prejudice. Now, I don't always subscribe to the art forms as being gender specific (I'm a straight man who is hugely interested in musical theater after all), but neither of those books should ever be force-fed to ANY teenage boy under any circumstances ever!
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#2re: My Antonia
Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:11pmThe cable movie is pretty good.
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#4re: My Antonia
Posted: 1/5/06 at 8:41amI also must say that I hated this book, and this is coming from someone who liked almost all of the assigned reading in high school. I just found it to be dreadfully boring and didn't feel emotionally connected to any of the characters.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5re: My Antonia
Posted: 1/5/06 at 11:19amHigh school reading is boring by proxy...unless you have a great teacher. Return to Cather as you get a little older...you'll dig it.
#6re: My Antonia
Posted: 1/5/06 at 11:24amI absolutely HATED this book. We read it in 10th grade and I remember that we had to analyze a scene with a plow. Way too much symbolism. Good luck getting through it!
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