A Level Students

Me: So what did you study before Howard's End?
Sts: Frankenstein.
Me: Did you enjoy it?
St 1: Frankenstein?! What a load of crap!
St 2: That was, like, so awful.
Me: But didn't you like the uneasy atmosphere? Did you get a sense of events gathering momentum and spiralling out of control?
St 3: I couldn't read it. It took ages. [It's a relatively short novel]
Me: What about the balance of power tilting from the creator to his creation. That was quite interesting, wasn't it?
St 4: It had a terrible narrative. The narration was awful.
St 1: My God it was so heavy. I hated it.
Me: Oh, right...