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Silas Marner
This book is required reading for freshman in our high school. This version is very hard to read due to the Old English style of writing.
Silas Marner
I am convinced that if they did not force people to read this book in tenth grade, no one would ever read it again. I love to read and I love books, but I hated this book in tenth grade and many years of life experience since then have not made it one iota more palatable.Please bear in mind that this review is purely based on my personal experience and weltanschauung. Your mileage may vary.
Silas Marner
I was forced to read this book in high school in the 1970's and I still recall it to this day as being one of the most painful reading experiences of my life. And no, I was not raised with heavy doses of the "idiot box." I read several classic books on my own when I was in high school without having them assigned: Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, The Old Man and the Sea, and just about everything by Vonnegut. Silas Marner is a very DULL and BORING book and teachers have no business making anyone read it. I'm amazed that being forced to read Marner didn't turn me off from reading for good.
Silas Marner
I am one of the former students who long ago was forced to read this rot for a HS english class. I can not think of a book that would be of less interest to a teen age american boy than this one. All the reviewers who praise this book make me wonder about what else they read. It was beyond boring and had no possible points of reference to me. There are literally thousands of British novels that would be better choices. If you are going to assign students a British Novel pick one that at least they would enjoy reading. Thank god I liked to read or after this experience I would probably not read anything for years. I hope to god that this is no longer assigned or rather forced reading for HS. When there are books like 1984 or Brave New World available why use one that has so little possible interest to students.
Silas Marner
do not recommend this book to anybody for a number of reasons. First of all, it is very boring and reading can become extremely tedious at some points. The storyline and plot is actually very interesting, but I think that if Eliot had presented it in a less descriptive and detailed way, it could have been much easier for a larger spectrum of readers to comprehend the messages she was attempting to transcribe through this story. This is definitely a selection that should be avoided by and young reader with any lack in patience or determination. This book is aimed much more towards scholars, historians, and English teachers.
Silas Marner
This book drags on about the most senseless details that neither matter at all to the book, or interest the reader. The book's plot is loosely connected through a complex and boring trail of these mindless details, overall, a very boring book.