Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Book - Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Where I got it - My dad once brought me a home a box-set of classic novels, this was one of the ones in the set.
Why I never read it before - Like Pride and Prejudice, it was hard for me to get into. The old language made it seem boring and it is also a pretty big book.
My Rating - 1/5

Review -

Honestly, I found this book to be pretty boring. I felt that it just went on and on forever and that the story went all over the place into places that it didn't really need to go. The beginning had certain parts that I almost wanted to skip through because I didn't see the point of them. I actually did skim through the whole Christmas Night Play thing at the beginning. Can you say boring? Also, the parts in the beginning where they have their story club? It's nice for kids to have a story club but do we need to have seven pages worth of their actual stories in this novel?
Also, considering this book is part of my series called "Romantic Classics" there really isn't much romance in it, maybe that's why I was disappointed. Jo spends a good chunk of the book hanging out with her neighbour and best friend, Laurie. Was I the only one who expected these two to actually get together by the end of the book? Laurie was soooo in love with Jo and then we he found out that she wouldn't have him he turned around and married her youngest sister. Hello? What? That came pretty much out of nowhere for me. There were a couple of chapters to show them getting close, but the first 3/4s of the book show Laurie seeing Amy as nothing but a (kind of annoying) little sister.
I mean sure, Jo did find love at the end of the novel, she married the old Professor guy. Same thing, they show them falling in love at the end of the book, but when the Professor is first introduced I don't think Jo had any feelings like that for him at all. She even said to her mother 'he's forty so there's nothing to worry about'. He was just this cool older guy that she really admired, like as a mentor, not as someone that she wanted to marry.
Also, Meg marries so tutor guy and they have kids and then become the most boring characters in the whole book.
Other than that...no romance! Most of this book was pretty childish stuff. There were a few parts that were interesting and a couple of sections that I enjoyed. For example, I like the part with Jo and Amy fighting and then Amy falling through the ice. I enjoyed the parts about Beth going to visit that poor family and then catching Scarlet Fever from their baby (which ultimately killed her like six years later). The times of hardship and struggle were the only parts in this book that actually seemed real to me, the rest of it I honestly think just took off and went into such far off places of reality that it ruined this book for me.

Oh, one last thing, don't even buy the 'Romantic Classics' box set. I have only read two of the books that are in it but they are riddled with so many typos and spelling mistakes that it makes it difficult to read them. Pride and Prejudice wasn't as bad, there would be sections with lots of typos and then none for a while. Little Women....it was painful, there were periods and quotation marks in the wrong spot on almost every page and the word 'he' was almost always replaced with the word 'her', it was like reading a really bad translation of the book.