Britta's comments (member since Jan 28, 2008)

Britta's comments from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die group.

Yelena,

Unfortunately, I can attest to the fact that they are teaching Coetzee at the college level. I was forced to read Foe and couldn't have hated it more if it was written by chimpanzees!

You know ... I had to read this for a graduate level English class in college where we were reading doubles (like reading Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and then J.M. Coetzee's Foe or King Lear and then A Hundred Thousand Acres). If I wasn't forced to, I would never had read this book. It was mundane and boring in the sheer repetition of the lists and such. I couldn't even stomach Foe for that matter but it was better than Crusoe.