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Title: Be Careful of What You Wish For
Review: Obviously, high-school aged people who are "forced" into reading this will find it boring and long-winded. What a shame; I hope you all have good teachers who can teach this wonderful book in a way to make it vivid and real for you. Wharton is a rare writer who can take a simple winter's day and turn it into a finely-wrought canvas. The story of Ethan Frome itself is very interesting and I myself read the book from cover to cover in one sitting. The ending is a surprise, and brings to mind the old adage: Be careful of what you wish for. You might get it.Perhaps because this book is almost ninety years old and doesn't have a splashy, gory cover or jacket blurbs from modern hacks, it appears to young people as boring. Again : what a shame. You don't know what you're missing.
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