I did not like little women.
I understand why people claim it as important to literature history, but for me it was painful.
I thought it would be a homey, lovely story (since I had all those great anime images still in my head from childhood) And since the new movie is coming out and i most likely will watch that, I wanted to have read the book before.
I made it till chapter 24, which marks the end of the previous first book, because all my patience was used up.
If the mom would have told the girls again how to be a good god fearing human i would have probably crushed my screen.
Yes, yes, great portrayal of history, big influence for feminism, blablabla, and the detailed boringness portrays the sad lifes of woman in the 19th century, blablabla.
You can all read it for that reason. You can all love it for that reason, I just found it excruciating painful. For me and my world today this has no value. The only thought I had was to make it stop.
The best part in the book was when Laurie asked Joe to run away with him, explore and discover the world. I was there wide awake for once and screaming in my heart "Yes joe, say yes, run with him"
But Joe crushed it with her with her answer of being a woman, and woman are not allowed to do this.
Add to that the continously preachings and how to be a good christian and person in the american way and you can see me go nuts.

I spoilered myself on the ending afterwards and got even more angry.
Because Patriarchy was horrible and the life of women back then was horrible and I am so glad I don't have to live in those times anymore. I really don't need to read a book about it, that detailed the boringness of that life in every tiny detail. There was no story arche, there was no tension, there was nothing.
It's not a book meant for me.