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Ethan Frome
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"Hey Mrs. Kinetta, are you still inflicting all that horrible Ethan Frome damage on your students?" - John Cusack, Grosse Pointe Blank
If you're looking for a book with an ever-increasing level of misery, this one is hard to beat. Try this test the next time you're with a group of your friends: just mention "Ethan Frome" out loud, and see how many of them groan audibly.
If you're looking for a book with an ever-increasing level of misery, this one is hard to beat. Try this test the next time you're with a group of your friends: just mention "Ethan Frome" out loud, and see how many of them groan audibly.
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January 1, 1988
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Finished Reading
August 30, 2007
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Apr 07, 2008 07:54PM
"ever-increasing level of misery" is extremely apt. I seriously don't understand why this book has "classic" status.
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"Classic" my butt. This is the worst! Love the Grosse Point Blank reference by the way. Hysterical!
I agree. The story is very depressing and way too dramatic for my taste.
I don't feel as though this book is anything special, it's just kind of a bummer. I think the "classic" status of this book should be revoked.
I honestly don't understand why this book is so bad. It's fairly comprehensible, slightly scandalous and pretty darn exciting if you ask me.
I honestly don't understand why this book is so bad. It's fairly comprehensible, slightly scandalous and pretty darn exciting if you ask me.
shocked by such online reviews. I'm only halfway through, but the description of subtle emotions and disposition is INSURMOUNTABLE. The poignancy of vanished things, the crushing isolation, the warmth found in a kindred soul... Everything is on a whole higher level in this novelette, rising so much higher above many books nowadays.
But ... they slam into a TREE. Like, seriously? The ending ROCKS, though!
This book is so filled with unhappiness, characters are trapped into life. The book begins when they are young, wanting more from life but not getting it. A bleak unhappy story.
