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⌈ Secret Post #2318 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

10. http://i.imgur.com/sDQRu8e.jpg

[maverickz3r0]

That's the 6th one, right? I skip large chunks of that one too.

[(Anonymous)]

No, it's the 7th one. The 6th one is Anne of Ingleside.

[maverickz3r0]

Hmm. Been a while since I read em. Second-to-last one. (Forgot there was 8.) The one with the kids, anyway, is the one I skip bits of. It just seems to move slowly.

[lyndis]

I don't like any story when children start appearing most of the time. Maybe this is because I don't really get excited at the idea of having kids of my own? I wouldn't mind being pregnant but I don't actually want kids. Does that make sense? So stories about the characters-I've-come-to-love's children? Bore me.

That said, the only series where I got into the kids is the Love Comes Softly series. And no, not the movies--nothing like the books at all, I swear. Though Clark was pretty hot. Hahahha.

[(Anonymous)]

But the fish chase scene was awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

That's the same reason why that book's my favorite.

And semi off-topic, but man, I wish I still had the edition with that cover.

[(Anonymous)]

My mother loves Rainbow Valley and Anne of Ingleside, but I always found the kids to be saccharine in a way Anne wasn't.

I usually just read the first three Anne books, anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, now I want to read the series again. :)

I always liked Rainbow Valley. Not as much as Rilla, but I still liked it. It's Anne of Ingleside that's probably my least favorite. And I loved the name - Rainbow Valley. I don't know - it just always caught my imagination. :)

[herongale]

I don't hate that book, but I also usually skip it in a re-read because the kids are all rich and sheltered and oftentimes embarrassingly prim and/or smug... I have especially come to hate Walter cuz he is this ridiculous dreamy dreamboat who is "sensitive" and has vague supernatural powers (hate this about Emily too, in the Emily books) and shits poetical sentiment everywhere and is presented as one of those obnoxiously sacharrine "too good for this world so he will die early" tools that is basically emblematic of all Montgomery's most unfortunate flaws as a writer. The other kids are not much better and the way poor children get depicted is just squirm-inducingly condescending and bad. Ugh. The stories are just so small and sometimes even small-minded. I love a lot of L.M.'s works but this is def one of my least favorites.

[tree_and_leaf]

the kids are all rich and sheltered

The manse children aren't, and I think their precarious social position is pretty well portrayed. Actually the bits I remember most vividly from RV deal with them, not the Blythe children.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Oh man, I love Emily.. but yeah, Rainbow Valley.. none of Anne and Gilbert's children could ever be as awesome as Anne herself was.. it's like anti-climatic or something.

Also, have you read The Story Girl and the Golden Road. those are two of my FAVORITE L.M Montgomery books.

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha oh my god finally a safe place to admit how this book made me realize I have a serious thing for fictional sad sensitive widower fathers. (He's described as "comely", I have a vivid imagination okay)
Mr Meredith/Rosemary West 4EVA

[(Anonymous)]

The books that focus a lot on children don't do much for me either. Everything just gets really, really sappy even by L.M. Montgomery's standards and none of Anne's kids have that same spark that she had. Oh well...

[(Anonymous)]

I only love the Anne books when Anne is young or just married to Gilbert without kids. There's something about heroines having kids that bothers me.

[thren]

Definitely not among my favourite of the books. I slogged through it, but it went so much slower and I didn't really care that much. The well-to-do'ness of Anne's kids and the condescending way people from the fishing areas are portrayed kinda left a bad taste in my mouth. I mean, it was pretty much how things were, but there seemed to be much more of a gap between Anne's household and everyone else than Marilla's household and everyone else, y'know? Standard for the local doctor vs. the peasantry, but it was that extra 'everyone poor is trashy' flavour that put me off. It seems like there was a lot more 'poor but respectable' in the earlier books.

At any rate, despite its many flaws and outright boringness, it does help set the stage for Rilla of Ingleside. I do love that book, both because it really brought home WWI and because in many ways the social fabric felt a lot more like the Avonlea days.