I thought it was OK. But I hate when people label certain books as "great milestones in literature" and think of them as a concrete standard carved into history. Who fucking makes those decisions?
It's the same thing as people giving me shit for not liking Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones. All that shit is filtered through personal biases, and that is fine, but people just need to realize that.
I remember my English teacher senior year of high school, he had us read CITR, and he preached his personal opinion of the book as dogma, and he wasn't even aware he was doing it.
The fucking guy told me my interpretation of some part of the book was wrong, and then said what the character was "really motivated by". It was so sad seeing this guy teach.
I have a doubt even the writer knew his own meaning when he wrote it. Stories often just come out of the darkest parts of the mind and the author may not even know what he/she meant until years later.
Half of high school and college English is just horse shit because the teachers effect so much of the material with their own opinion. They have a lot of trouble taking themselves out of the literature.
end of rant! If any of you want to respond and tell me my opinion on English classes is worthless because of all the grammatical errors above, go fuck yourself!! I don't feel like proof reading, I like to type outside the lines.
