The Secret life of Bees(?)

So, I had to read this book for school and I must say it was the worst book ever. And in light of the up and coming movie, I thought we could pull a moviepoopshoot.com and bash it.

For those of you who don't know, it's about this teen who grows up in the south a little before the Civil War with her dad and their slaves. She doesn't have a mom which is what it's all about, sadly. So one day, she tells off these guys who are beating a slave, and as punishment her dad brutally rapes her. Then she and her surrogate mother (the head-slave) flee to the North and stay with these black ladies who sell honey. Then she starts feeling her boobs (wtf?!) and her dad shows up and tells her that she shot her mom (with a gun) when she was 1. Then it ends.

This is the worst book ever. Discuss.

She shot her mom when she was 1? That's pretty hardcore :o

Yay for completely random sexual content in literature.

I hate it when authors do that.

Then she starts feeling her boobs

I love it already.

based on your summary, i conclude that the book has nothing to do with bees.

I thought this thread was gonna be about some cool facts about bees and their social structure or sumthin.

Same here.

What do bees do?

They collect honey so they are honeycollectors.

And what is the adult meaning of honey?

You know where I am heading.

You don't like it because it's a book for women. It's also destined to be one of those movies that guys go to to get further into their girlfriends' good sides (in all senses of the term).

That book really sucks.
Why schools make us read those bunch of crap books?

Originally Posted by Deitri

That book really sucks.
Why schools make us read those bunch of crap books?

A full ten minutes after:

Originally Posted by Teh_Ephy

You don't like it because it's a book for women. It's also destined to be one of those movies that guys go to to get further into their girlfriends' good sides (in all senses of the term).

What the hell are you reading?

To begin with, the book didn't take place before the Civil War. They mentioned numerous times that black people were becoming able to vote. Her dad never raped her. He beat her, yes, but the most brutal punishment he did was having her kneel on grits. That's a pretty big part of the story too. Rosaline wasn't a "head slave". Rosaline was a maid. They didn't run to the north, they ran to Tiburon, South Carolina. I'm not sure about her feeling her tits, but it's puberty. I think the only accurate thing you said was that when she was a toddler, she accidentally shot her mother with a handgun when she walked in on her parents fighting.

I personally liked the story just because of the way it was narrated.

I haven't watched the movie, but my classmates say that it's shit, and when a bunch of teenage English Honors girls say that a tacky feel-good movie about a girl's coming-of-age is shit, it's shit.

Overall, the book feels like To Kill a Mockingbird if you replaced Atticus with a drunken lunatic.

To Kill a Mockingbird was alright. Move was descent too, besides the ugly-ass kid who played Dill. He walked on screen and my whole class started laughing.

As for worse? Reading in the Dark. Try that. It's only saving grace is that it's set in Ireland during the days of the IRA. That's it.

One thing I know for sure ; Their deaf...

Originally Posted by Teh_Ephy

A full ten minutes after:

What if i am women?

Any half-intelligent dust mite can guess if you're talking to a guy or girl just with the way people say things. "Why schools make us read those bunch of crap books?" is definitely worded like a thirteen-year-old boy.