Has anyone read the book?
I did, back a few years in highschool. I thought it was one of the most boring books I've ever read in my life. Dreadful.
shareim reading it now in high school. its not that boring.
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I'll second that! Definitely my least favorite book of all that I have ever read. I'm not sure how they're going to make a movie out of it. Normally books contain far too much content and the screenplay writer needs to cut it down and chopped it up to fit in the ~2 hours of a feature film. However in this book there was only maybe 10 minutes worth of content throughout the entire ~300 page novel. Maybe a short film would have been a better choice then a feature length film?
I agree, was NOT a highlight of my high school career to read this.
Speaking of the book, shouldn't the writing credits reflect the fact that this is an adaptation from Margaret Laurence's novel?
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I read it this year in school, and I really loved it. I'm so excited that Burstyn is playing Hagar, for everyone that's seen "Requiem for a Dream" you'll understand... she's so excellent.
shareI really enjoyed it in hight school. I just finished re-reading it 10 years later, and I appreciate it even more now. Margaret Laurence is by far my favourite Canadian author. Something about the way she writes stays with you, affects you.
shareI love this book to bits. I'm not done reading it- I'm about three quarters of the way through- but I love it.
ryn
OMG i TOTALLY agree with you, i'm reading it now as i speak...it's possibly one of the worst book every written...i keep falling asleep ...it's so boring and it goes on and on....i haven't finished reading it yet...i hope it's going to get better soon....
shareI just finished reading it.
I loved it.
It was a wonderful book. :D
ryn
This book blows chow!
Honestly, I tried to read this book with an objective mind but found myself losing my mind (coincedently like that harpy hagar!) after chapter one. The only reason I kept reading it was because I had to (godamn unit test!). I find it mind blowing that some people actually like it, I mean lets take a look at some of its 'appealing' aspects shall we: its boring, depressing, long, from the canadian praries (oh baby, now there's a happening place) it stars an insufferable old scow with about as much emotional self awareness as terry shaivo on crack, and to complete the festival of suffering, towards its end, you are bombarded with mental images of the elderly hagar lamenting on a life of joyless sex (yikes!). In summary: bad book, terrible writer, horrible experiance in general. If I've missed anything, anything at all in my attack, please let me know.
P.S. to the poster who said, "it stays with you, affects you" you're sure as hell right about that, although it would be far more accurate to say "haunts you, disturbs you!"
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