Calling all women

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Shelob

It's not that I "connected" to one book more than the other, for in truth I probably did have more in common to the characters in Little Women, but simply that I found it annoying to read and boring. Dislike of a book can come from nothing more than that, and if that's the case you'll have a harder time convincing them to put aside their dislike than Sisyphus has of getting his boulder to the hill top.

Ah, Little Women. I hated that book with a passion. I read it on my own, and that made it no better than if I'd been force to read it. It just keeps going, and I could never quite figure out the point, and when I finally thought I had it down, my favorite character up and died. My dislike had nothing to do with writing style or genre, it was really just the book itself. Good luck if they've all got that problem man. I can't for the life of me see how that book could become interesting to me.

But sticking with Louisa May Alcott, don't lose faith! Just because I didn't like Little Women doesn't mean that I don't absolutely love her Old Fashioned Girl. Just because they may not like The Hobbit doesn't mean that they won't fall in love with the LotR.