I love it

[ThruMyEyer73]

i absolutly adore the secret garden! its the kind of book u read on a rainy day curled up with a mug of hot cocoa
<3 <3 <3

[Dallasdream99]

I think the reason why, is because when an epic and great book is told, some actually read it, but most don't want to. They usually wait for the movie. Over time more and more movies would be made to add modern technology in to enhance the clarity of the movie..(wow haven't used this vocabulary in a long time..)--Skye, 14 (okay may be wrong, but most probably..)

[Dallasdream99]

it is an awesome book, i agree

[sighman]

I read part of the book in class and its awesome. We are doing the play in Drama class and Reading the Novel in Humanities class. It is awesome because it is all about Mary's problems. This book is truely amazing. The author makes Mary look like a sour person but after awhile it looks like she is becoming a better person. I enjoy reading this book in classes. It is a classic book because people have been reading it forever and passing it on from generation to generation. It was written in 1911 I think and now its what, 2006 that is 95 years.

[sighman]

Its a great book about Mary turning into a better person I think, I think she gets better from what I have read she has gotten better.

[dreamer~]

Justin *ahem* SO! apparently you read this book at the same time i did, you did the research the time I did, and so basically we should've had the same thoughts and ideas about it. After all SIGHman, you do go to the same school as me (I think.............) ... ANYWAY! Nice entry..... and I just have to say. This is a great book, and the thing is I can relate to mary and colin...as Mr. Sheldon, our drama teacher said, "Mary jumps and screams the way Kim does when she doesn't get her way." and "Colin jumps and screams the way Kevin does when he doesn't get his way" hahha.......I like reading Martha because of her thick accent, but I liked reading Mary because she's the spitting image of me.....personality wise...in some way... but anyway, Mr. Steel (Humanities) had said, that beacsue of what hadhappened to her parents, how she had been treated, everything changed. Nice entry.

[dreamer~]

Hi...I understand why you may not like it. But I loved it. Well its your loss, but thanks for sharing you thoughts ^^

[chancegardener]

My grandmother gave me this book when I was ten years old, and I read it over and over. Recently, at the age of fifty seven, after an especially enjoyable spring of gardening and re-landscaping around my house, I read it again and discovered that it was even better than I remembered. Now that I know something about gardening, of course, I have to wonder how Mary could spend all morning weeding flower beds and NOT go back to the house covered with dirt from head to foot. And where did they put all the mulch after they weeded and pruned? And how did they smuggle enough water for all those flowers into the garden? Didn't anyone notice the kids going back and forth with buckets and wheelbarrows?

But who cares? This isn't supposed to be a strictly realistic story. It's about feeling lonely, grumpy, unloved and unattractive (and who on this earth hasn't felt like that at some time or other?) and then getting over all that misery and self-pity by doing something beautiful and creative. Through gardening, Mary learns to care about things and people other than herself, and then Colin learns the same things.

For those of you who have trouble with the Yorkshire dialect, try reading it out loud. If you know what a Scottish accent sounds like, try to pronounce it a bit like that. You'll get it eventually.