[ SECRET POST #2238 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2238 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[visp]

Sooo much hate for The Red Pony. I read that one when I was 9 and was like, "Yay, the boy has a pony! It's so pretty and... what? Oh, I'm sure he'll get better and... No! No, no, nononono! Why?"

[cassandraoftroy]

There's an entire genre of children's literature that I like to call, "...And Then the Dog Dies," that makes me want to print out warning labels and go into the nearest elementary school and stick them on every copy of every book that pulls that crap. (Where the Red Fern Grows, I'm looking at YOU.)

[visp]

At least Red Fern has a whole story full of adventures and happy times, and so if the dogs do die, it's still kinda 'Bittersweet Ending,' 'Circle of Life.' Red Pony is just a long, drawn-out story of suck.

[cassandraoftroy]

It's true. There was what, maybe half a chapter of happy-horsey-times, and then everything in the kid's life started dying and shit? I read the book when I was 12, but I remember it being a pretty unrelenting torrent of despair. Like most of Steinbeck.

[truxillogical]

Where The Red Fern Grows stands out to me as the book. As in, once we read that (in 5th grade, I think), we were Never Again going to read any book that had anything like a happy ending.

Which is just ricockulous the more you think about it, because sheesh, there are plenty of good "classic" stories out there that have happy endings too. But nope, no time for Midsummer Night's Dream, let's go through Romeo and Juliet. Oh. May we?

Also, the image of one of the bully brothers falling onto his own axe, looking up at the protag, and trying to speak but just making a bubble of blood before dying is forever ingrained in my mind.