heykellyjensen 's review for:

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Best of the bunch so far as to show how much of a bumbling idiot Pa is (I saw another reviewer say this book should be called "Pa's Follies" and that's spot on). Worst of the bunch so far for being incredibly racist and insensitive and disgusting as far as treatment and discussion of Native Americans. Yeowch. I would love to read a series of books from this era from their perspective.

What I don't get is why they moved in the first place. Apparently being in the middle of no where Wisconsin was getting too busy and populated, so they moved to the middle of no where Kansas, which then was on an Indian Trail, so they felt at once too rural and also like they were on land that wasn't theirs (duh?).

Also, like, how are they making money? That has to be the reason they keep moving. Maybe Pa keeps running up tabs he can't pay back and instead of working, he just packs up the family and rolls 'em on out (that's a joke).

Onto the next place they're going to live. Because they can't even make it a whole book without leaving town now.