- Vanesa wrote:
- But what are your reasons to think it's so bad?
I'm sure it is 
, but now you awake my curiosity about this book! 
Vanesa.
I don't really know if I care to say why this book irritated me so much. I am afraid that if I say some of those things, it just might make me look like a horrible person.
I got myself so irriated with some of
the things that she said that I even had to read
the passages to other people (amazingly I found a review online where another person had done
the same thing I did!). I understand some of what she said she was saying for "humor" (not that I even cracked a smile at any of it), but there were other comments made that I thought there was no reason for her to make them other than to be nasty. Others probably won't view it that way, I know, but I did. As for her wanting to "rediscover" her childhood, or whatever that was, after her mother died, I didn't really buy it. Maybe I am just a cynical, nasty person, but I just think she used that as an excuse to write
the book. And amazingly it took until
the last chapter for her to realize why she had done it. And I got so tired of her talking about her Laura World, or whatever she called it. She talked about it like everyone was that way when they were kids. I never was. I loved Little House, but I didn't live in that fantasy world. And her opinions of
the Ingalls (particulary Caroline) annoyed me. Not once does she say "in my opinion" - unless I managed to skip that in there. I understand not necessarily liking
the way a person may have viewed things in
the past, but
why on earth couldn't she consider the situation that Caroline lived in at the time? And I was so tired of hearing about her boyfriend. She's engaged now? Well, she can have him! One thing she is really bad at (or I should say "good at") is being repetitive. I just hated this book so much!
You know, my mother had been sick for awhile. And I have been
the one taking care of her. Thank God nothing has happened in all of this time, but if, God forbid, something should happen to her because of this, I highly doubt I am going to have a sudden urge to relive my childhood in this crazy way just to end up writing a book about it with my revelation being in
the last chapter. I just don't think so. I know I am different from other people, but it is
the way I feel about it. F.Y.I. My mother was
the one that I read most of
the passages to and she was having
the same reaction I was. In fact, anytime I bring this book up, she always says to me "That book was so ridiculous".
This isn't
the only book that I absolutely detest. There is also
Rebecca,
A Wrinkle In Time and
The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte (talk about repetitive - when I was reading that book I just wanted to scream at
the top of my lungs "OK. You hate Charlotte Bronte. You think she's ugly. Get over it!" - if you've ever read
the book, you would know what I was talking about).
I did take away one thing from
the book, though.
The explanation as to why there is a big Asian community in Walnut Grove. Yes, I do admit to
the fact that I questioned that while I was there (in my mind), but if you had ever been there, I think you would wonder
the same thing. Why of all places would there be an Asian community - Hmong, at that - in
Walnut Grove, Minnesota? So that was explained to me.
But you will probably like it.
Everyone seems to but myself and that person whose review was basically
the same as my opinion.
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