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[Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road, AEon Flux from the AEon Flux Movie. Charlize Theron]

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[WWE/Supernatural]

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[The Price of Salt/Carol]

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[Bravely Default]

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[Bones/X-Files]

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[Zenon]

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[Fallout: Nuka Break]

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[Neko Atsume]

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[Mass Effect]

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From the ones I can remember....

Liked:

Belle Canto
Life of Pi
Great Gatsby
Shakespeare
The Good Earth

Disliked:

Catcher in the Rye. Fuck this book. I kept a tally of every time the main character annoyed me, and it was over 100.

All books that were written with the dialect's written out. Nothing personal, but I had a hard time parsing them. :/

ETHAN FUCKING FROME. I swear that Zeena was a witch, and that cat was her familiar. Seriously, her face showed up in wood, wood floats (and burns) you know what ELSE floats? WITCHES.

I'm ambivalent on dialect. Sometimes I like it, mostly when I'm familiar with the dialect they're trying to portray, and other times I can't stand it. The one time I just completely gave up and skipped over all the lines spoken by one character was with Wuthering Heights.

In my class it was mostly American-Southern dialects, so Huck Finn, Sula, etc. Though, I'm not familiar with it, like you were describing, so that makes sense.

anon above who hates Ethan Frome

I don't remember any of that but ngl if it was about a witch I would like it more. I felt sorry for her and didn't understand why I was supposed to find the other romance so compelling.

Huh, that's interesting! I read her differently, and found the fact that the ending involved everyone forced to stay with her to be very sad.

I'm not saying you read it wrong or anything! But now I wonder how much of that was how our teacher's taught it, and how much of it was "oh my god I haaaaaate this book, let me latch onto this one thing".

Heh, for me it was summer reading. Our school assigned two novels every summer and then we'd take tests/write reports on them/discuss them for the first couple weeks before moving on to things that weren't novels. So we were kind of left to form our own opinions. Pretty sure my book report was just a rant about what a gross story it was and why was I supposed to think cheating was okay etc.

But also iirc it had a first person narrator that never tells us anything about their-self? Was that a thing? If that was a thing, it drove me crazy.

And it was boring.

Yeah, we had that, only ours were (1984 or Farenheit 451) + Catcher. Ended up reading 451 again (read it in middle school on a dare from a teacher) as I didn't like 1984.

Personally, I read Zeena as an emotionally abusive narc. who used her constant "sickness" to keep her hold on her husband, but in the end, I was still pissed because I just wanted him to leave her before jumping into any other relationships, instead of the awkward "oh I'm married but heyyyyyyy" thing that was going on.

I don't remember anything about the narrator, lol, but I don't know if that's because he didn't say anything, or if that was because I've blocked it out. |D

Your interpretation is probably closer to correct, but in my defense I was 15. I'd probably see it more like that now but pfff like hell am I gonna waste my time on that book now. ~~For the record, I was the only one in the class who didn't LOOOOOVE that book and I think I got a bad grade on the report, haha.~~

I looked it up and apparently the narrator is only there for the prologue and the epilogue. But it just seemed so weird to me. He was interacting with Ethan but we didn't know his name or anything it just seemed so pointless.

Nah, don't worry about it- I read it at 15 too, but there is no way in HELL I am EVER rereading this piece of shit. I hated it.

Fuck yeah he was pointless! It seemed like Nick-Carraway-esque, even though TGG came out later, and did it better IMO.

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