http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:05:23 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-741037 The lack of a storyline did make the book a little less interesting than i would have liked but altogether it was still a pretty well-written book. Not that i would have read it if i had a choice.. (i only read it for an english assignement) 741037@blogcritics.org Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:05:23 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-740157 This book sucked so bad. No story line whatsoever just a kid running around telling us about his life. We all have lives to, we dont need to read about your stupid life. There was no ultimate goal, no villan, the book SUCKED! 740157@blogcritics.org Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:30:31 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-714739 Just so everyone knows ... Willa Cather was gay. No, really .. she liked vagina. 714739@blogcritics.org Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:15:40 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-710885 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. 710885@blogcritics.org Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:01:40 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-710882 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. 710882@blogcritics.org Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:59:51 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-708212 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 708212@blogcritics.org Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:36:59 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-698073 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? 698073@blogcritics.org Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:37:33 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-688109 Die Antonia. Dieeeee 688109@blogcritics.org Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:02:09 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-687308 this book was really hard to get into. i am doing an english project on her and most of her novels are very boring. 687308@blogcritics.org Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:40:10 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-658326 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). 658326@blogcritics.org Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:06:39 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-654213 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. 654213@blogcritics.org Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:04:04 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-649644 this book was uggh, i am reading it for an english project. it was pretty gay. 649644@blogcritics.org Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:27:34 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-627956 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. 627956@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 Sep 2007 22:58:01 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-626205 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. 626205@blogcritics.org Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:11:07 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-625020 the book sucks like a hooker for $100 625020@blogcritics.org Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:09:55 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/28/154100.php#comment-621346 i think the book is stupid..its boring and annoying and i hate it pont blankk..k thanks 621346@blogcritics.org Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:10:59 EDT