Been working though the classics, and about a year ago, picked up Anne. My experience started something like this:
Book opened with a really long run-on sentence, then spent a while describing Anne's potential step-father journeying to pick her up. Poor first impression; this is going to be a slog. Anne gets picked up and driven home. She blathers nonsense for the duration of the journey. They get home.
Stepmum: I ordered a boy. Send this girl back to the shop.
Stepfather: 🙁
Anne: :'(
Me: :'(
Couldn't put the damn thing down after that. New top ten favorite. Anne is an adorable little weirdo.
by brontesaurus999
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My spouse has scared me away from it. Hated it
I had the same experience. Couldn’t get past the description of the brook at first, but fell in love with the book on my second try.
I read Anne several years ago for a reading challenge. I’d rate it meh. It wasn’t my favorite and I was kinda bored at times but I’ve read much worse.
I was surprised by how much I loved it. I chalk it up to the fact that one of my favorite people is an Anne—a dreamer, prone to having rambling thoughts that she can’t contain, always finding the best in a situation.
As a decidedly NOT Anne, I was prepared to be annoyed by her, but I found it charming.