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by Walter Scott
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Calyre
Calyre rated it 8 years ago
...le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
Carpe Librum
Carpe Librum rated it 9 years ago
This was a re-read for me, and I do have to admit that I have either become more generous with my ratings or this one deserved higher the first time. Bumping it from 3 to 4 stars, I feel that this book is more fairly rated even if I still didn't enjoy it as much as I would expect to like a story ful...
Jocelyn (The Reading World)
Jocelyn (The Reading World) rated it 9 years ago
You know what's weird? I spent three whole weeks getting through this 600-page novel, yet when I finished, I managed to reread half of it in the space of 12 hours. (That is, if going over all my favorite parts out of order counts as rereading.)So yeah, this was a challenging novel, but it was mostly...
Aren's Library
Aren's Library rated it 10 years ago
Not the best books I've read, but I'm glad I've read it.
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
There was a time when Walter Scott was seen as the great novelist of his age--far superior to Jane Austen. Donizetti used one of Scott's novels for the basis of Lucia de Lammermoor. Mark Twain decried Scott's influence on Southern American culture with his "sham chivalries" Twain blamed for the Amer...
katiewilkins186
katiewilkins186 rated it 12 years ago
For the modern reader, there are many complaints that could lodged against the writing in Ivanhoe (first published in the early 1800′s). Both the beginning of the book and every new character or location inspire several paragraphs of exposition. At first, I found these very detailed descriptions mad...
caseyreads
caseyreads rated it 12 years ago
Ivanhoe is a story of medieval England, where King Richard has been captured in a foreign land, and his brother, the mean-spirited and greedy Prince John, is poorly running the kingdom, which is abound with brigands and cartels, plotting to take the crown himself. The lovely Rowena, under the care o...
heidenkind
heidenkind rated it 13 years ago
I FINISHED IT!!!!!
sologdin
sologdin rated it 13 years ago
Much prefer this edition over the older Signet--better notes and peripheral materials.It's badass, despite some severely retrograde content. Best in its errors: the repeated invocation of Zerneboch/Czarnabog by the Saxons--which attempts mistakenly, both as to time and to culture, to involve Slavi...
Carpe Librum
Carpe Librum rated it 13 years ago
I started reading this book fully expecting to enjoy it due to my love of Plantagenet history. In some ways I was not disappointed. The characters were well developed if a little too "black and white" with no one seeming to fall into any moral gray areas. The period was vibrantly (and mostly accu...
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