This book sucked so badly. I hated it so much. They spent too much time describing the freakin' corn and hills and whatnot. This book was so boring I nearly committed suicide each time I had to sit down and read it for school. Very bad.

I love to read just about anything out there. I couldn't get through the first chapter. Like Peg, I was bored and struggling.

this was a really deep book, i wish they would have explained more deeply why jim chose the title "My Antonia" thoght.. its one of my essay qestions. If enyone knows the answer then please Email me.. Dani492@aol.com

this book was one of the most stupid and boring books ever! i hated that book! that book is also one of the most sick and twisted kind of stories i have ever been forced to read in my life, fricken jim was really willa in the book....that is goddam disturbing, i don't care to hear any of willa's nasty lesbian fantasies! so, if i were you.....i would spare yourself, do yourself a favor and like don't ever attempt to even read this book!!!! if you do, you might as well kiss yourself good bye because your soul will go to hell like mine did...you might as well cross your heart and hope to die! btw, willa i have absolutley have no goddam rest for you at all, you are a sick person.

this was the absolute shittiest book i have ever read...wtf??? stupid antonia go get slapped yu stupid ho

i dont think it is that bad and i think the other people saying comments are stupid to say such things

I don't know what you guys are smoking, but I found the novel inspiring. Its a good novel. Thats why its a classic.

Ok, first of all this book is proof that satan still exists in the world today.
i had to read this book for school and i read the first 5 pages and almost clawed my eyes out after having to read this. Willa is nasty by the way and this is all about her lesbian thoughts. thats messed up on so many levels. if your considering reading this book for any reason... just dont. thats all i can say.

Wow, back off of the novel people. It is a good book, and even if Willa Cather chose to depict herself as Jim, this is no lesbian fantasy, it is simply her choice for how to make the story more effective and reach the audience she was going for.
If you are just reading this novel for a class, and hate it because you can't handle a book where the pictures are created with words and not paints, you really shouldn't share your opinion on this Classic Novel. Anyone with literary sense would see that this is a wonderful story.

White Summer Dress is a great love story of true love in the hard cold light of day. Read it, it could change your life.

i think the book is stupid..its boring and annoying and i hate it pont blankk..k thanks

the book sucks like a hooker for $100

I thought this book was very good. I had to read it for summer reading and it was the best book out of all of the books I had to read. Don't listen to all of the stupid people saying it was bad. They just don't know what they are talking about and obviously they can't understand anything. Please read this book, it was VERY good.

I have to say that i am happy that i'm not the only person who hates this friggen book. It takes about one or two words for me to read before i get soo pissed off that this piece of shit book that i just go absolutely fuckin nuts and bit the shit out of it. Seriously i have about a million bite marks on my my antonia book. o and also i bit out some of the fuckin pages in the back, lmao. I can't believe my school would be so retarded as to give us such a shitty book to read over the summer. it's bad e-fuckin-nough that we have to read over the summer, at least give us a book that's worth wasting my time to read. seriously, they spend wayy too much damn time writing about the fuckin scenery and nonsense shit like that. i could write that whole goddamn book and tell the story in 10 pages. In my opinion (and anyone else who has a life's opinion), every copy of this book should be friggen burned because it's just sooo shitty. the auther died fuckin 60 years ago or so and was born during the goddamn cowboy western shoot-out age. That's just about all i have to say about that book other than if you haven't read it, DON'T.

this book was uggh, i am reading it for an english project. it was pretty gay.

I didn't like the book very much. It went into too much detail which lost my focus on what we were talking about. I'm very a.d.d. so it's hard for me to read a book anyway. All of the detail lost me.

Obviously this book is not right for children who can't focus on a world other than their own. Cather's writing is crisp and clear and moving, completely pertinent for the time period. She is able to take her childhood memories of frontier Nebraska and weave them into an engrossing story, that feels relevant even now. If you have a hard time reading this book I suggest you never try to read Dickens, Hawthorne, Thoreau, or Melville to name a few. Cather is one of the great American authors, and that is why you have to read her work in school, when it is almost impossible to appreciate it. By the way, many authors occasionally use a change of perspective and write from the standpoint of the opposite sex (Stephen King in Gerald's Game and Rose Madder).

this book was really hard to get into. i am doing an english project on her and most of her novels are very boring.

Die Antonia. Dieeeee

In addition to what Joanne said previously... the people who complained about this book should also refrain from reading Milton, Austen, Hardy, and Steinbeck as well. And even though Conrad, Hemmingway, and Shakespeare are very different, they should probably stay away from those authors too... seeing as books with symbolism and underlying meanings probably are too much for them. Basically, people who can barely sit through picture books or horrible bratty teenager books have no right to comment. The novel was wonderfully executed and also contained a good story. Everyone with whom I've spoken about it. who APPRECIATES real literature, thought it was a good book.

And to those ranting about Cather being a lesbian? Grow up? It was hard enough being a WOMAN writer of the time, let alone a LESBIAN writer. Willa shows tremendous courage through this novel, even if the true meaning was masked by a male character. What does that tell you about the time anyway? That a woman had to paint herself as a man for her book to do well?

i read this book for extra credit in english, and i agree completely with everything this review says. the book was beautifully written and i was moved by how much jim loved antonia. i didnt know this was supposed to be some lesbian fantasy, but even if it is true, it is just a story of friendship love. if you cant handle this, you'll never read anything good

I find it distressing that so many people could not open up their minds to this novel. We are supposed to be the people of the future, the next generation, and if we can not open up our minds and try to read into novels and experience new ideas how are we going to survive in the real world? If you were too ignorant to give this book a chance and read it because you were forced to, hating every page because you might not particularly care about the description of sunset on the prairies of Nebraska, I feel sorry for you. Grow up, and suck it up. you are going to have to read much harder novels in your future, so good luck in college. Also have you considered that maybe Cather wrote from the perspective of a male because that was accepted in the time. Probably not. This was during the time of change for the role of women, any book written from the view point of a male was going to be more comfortable. Males did control the country up until around this time. I suggest you give this book another chance if you are one of the people who hated it. Take your time and think about what you are reading. This book was beautifully written, it should be enjoyed.

I find it distressing that so many people could not open up their minds to this novel. We are supposed to be the people of the future, the next generation, and if we can not open up our minds and try to read into novels and experience new ideas how are we going to survive in the real world? If you were too ignorant to give this book a chance and read it because you were forced to, hating every page because you might not particularly care about the description of sunset on the prairies of Nebraska, I feel sorry for you. Grow up, and suck it up. you are going to have to read much harder novels in your future, so good luck in college. Also have you considered that maybe Cather wrote from the perspective of a male because that was accepted in the time. Probably not. This was during the time of change for the role of women, any book written from the view point of a male was going to be more comfortable. Males did control the country up until around this time. I suggest you give this book another chance if you are one of the people who hated it. Take your time and think about what you are reading. This book was beautifully written, it should be enjoyed.

Just so everyone knows ... Willa Cather was gay. No, really .. she liked vagina.