"All the female guests were huddled aghast against the walls like sheep in a storm, and the men were bewildered as to what to do." Thomas Hardy and I don't gel. Maybe it's the pastoral setting, maybe it's the rather monotonous way he tells a story, maybe it was the endless descriptions of sheep an...
"The heart wants what the heart wants"No, that is not from this book. I just thought it would have been a good tagline for the 2015 movie adaptation of this classic (they went with "Based on the classic love story by Thomas Hardy" instead)."Serve you right you silly cow"That is also not from the boo...
It's a classic innit? It really is though. I'd forgotten just how good this is. The best thing is the way it evokes rural life in the West Country in the late 18th century. Marvellous and, unusually for Hardy, with a feel good ending.
I liked it - begrudgingly. I doubt that I would have finished it if it were not our book club selection. It was over-dramatic even for the standards of the day. It’s definitely over-dramatic for my taste.The first half of the story was interesting; the second half was predictable and hackneyed. I wa...
Extraordinary novel which every sentence and word was food for my mind and soul. Hardy's witty, shrewd and merciless remarks about his heroes and heroines of various backgrounds and beautiful descriptions of Wessex landscapes left me awestruck. Read it I guess ten years ago and now again – I really ...
I was pretty head-over-heels for this book after the first page but by the time our heroine Bathsheba Everdene appeared, my love was sealed. (How fabulous is that name?!)Of this book, Virginia Woolf said: "The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the...
Jane Austen's six novels have become so commonplace that people have begun to add elements like sea monsters and porn just to keep that ball(room) rolling. Which is sad because fans of Austen would probably love moving on to the even more tragic and fatally misunderstood emotional outbursts found i...
Read slowly..Savour the words and sentences..I found myself reading more classic books nowadays and I finally have an inkling of the reason. It turned out I was craving for the slower pace that they have in contrast to the frantic humdrum of stressing workday. By the time I got to Hardy, I'm quite r...
The main character of this 19th century British classic is Bathsheba Everdene, an independent woman who through an inheritance gains ownership of a farm. Bathsheba is feisty, smart and both willing and able to succeed in a man's world. That is until she falls in love with Sargeant Troy, a womanize...
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