I started this book a year ago. I read it with some friends. One finished it, the other didnt. I wanted to like this book, I really did. I love literature, and it seemed like a great story. I had lots of qualms with this book. First of all, it's ok if the protagonist is villian-like, or we despise h...
Nutshell: bucolic twerp, well read in romance novels, gets bored with bourgeois husband, has affairs, bankrupts estate, dies.A tremendous narrative. Only rhetorical default is the first word, We (1), first-person narration, which nevertheless disappears very soon in favor of third-person omniscien...
Of all the books I had to read in high school, this is the only one I truly hated. Probably the most boring book I ever forced myself to finish. None of the characters are likeable, the story is tedious, and I think it only still gets assigned in English classes because it was "controversial" a hund...
In this case, I think it was a bad idea to know stuff about Madame Bovary and Gustave Flaubert before starting the book. My high school English teacher loved to talk about books - and I know how she feels - but the result was quite a few spoilers for a lot of European classics. I think that knowing ...
BkC153) Flaubert, Gustave, [MADAME BOVARY] (tr. Lydia Davis): Classic novel, deathless. Sorta like a literary zombie. Rating: 3* of fiveThe Book Description: As if one is really necessary. Well, here it is:A literary event: one of the world's most celebrated novels, in a magnificent new translation...
Oh, Madame Bovary – you and your ennui. I could not care less… but still I cannot help but admire this book.Madame Bovary is the kind of story that is not up my street at all. I find most romance quite dull, and stories about unhappy marriage and the escapism from it seem even more boring to me. But...
Reading (and re-reading) the 10 best novels of the 19th century.Part 2: Madame BovaryThis is another book that I moaned and complained through (see Part 1: Anna Karenina), and indeed for many of the same reasons. The burgeoning bourgeois culture of mid 19th century France is about as unrelateable to...
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