Calling all women

[Shelob]

As a book to read it doesn't appeal anymore - not becasue I am a woman but becasue I am an adult.

But if you were to pick it up for the first time now, never having read and enjoyed it before, would you find it BAD or just something you wouldn't be able to finish reading?

There is a difference. I have a real hard time reading through Lord of the Rings but under no circumstances would I say it's BAD. Similarly the second Alvarez book I mentioned before was an easy read but I just can't stand the book. Some books just fit both, Their Eyes Were Watching God is unbearably hard for me to read and it's BAD, Horrible even...


I certainly agree that the style of writing plays somehow into their dislike of the book, both The Hobbit and Treasure Island were written for children after all, but I doubt that it's enough on it's own to warrant such a response. The genre or the gender issues probably play into it at least as much as does the age difference.