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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Книгата е в духа на времето си т.е. леко драматична на моменти и ме смущаваше с чести препратки към библейски характери и съдби, но е написана отлично и от нея могат много автори да си вземат бележки как се описва любовен триъгълник (или в случая четириъгълник.)
Предговорът на български беше спойлер за другите книги на Томас Харди т.е. за "Тес от рода д'Ърбървил" отсега удоволствието ми е развалено.
Предговорът на български беше спойлер за другите книги на Томас Харди т.е. за "Тес от рода д'Ърбървил" отсега удоволствието ми е развалено.
"Oh, I'm Bathsheba. I'm so lovely all the men want to marry me, but I'm a complete idiot who marries the wrong one. Poor pitiful me!"
I saw the movie first and remembered how much I liked reading Thomas Hardy (Tess of the D'Urbervilles) in high school, so I decided to read this one. While I still adore the movie, I thought the characters made more sense in the book. They were so much more alive, and I really understood them - even Boldwood and Troy, who weren't such great people. I also felt like the novel was just so beautifully written, and Hardy seemed to think deeply about his female main character.
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder
Moderate: Child death
Narrator made it so dull. I'll try actually reading it
Totally sexist, totally classic, and quite good... toward the end.
I hadn't read Tom Hardy before, and this book was slow to start, but hilarious (if you find 3 men fighting over one woman very dramatically funny), and very descriptive.
I hadn't read Tom Hardy before, and this book was slow to start, but hilarious (if you find 3 men fighting over one woman very dramatically funny), and very descriptive.
Hat ein bisschen zu viel von einem Groschenroman, aber an und für sich hatte ich Spaß beim Lesen.
I loved so much about this book. The bucolic scenery and farm life, the thorough development of the four main characters (though beyond that, most of the characters felt like exactly the same person to me), and a love triangle (square?) with three different suitors. Bathsheba Everdene is a proud, beautiful and self-sufficient woman ready to take on the world and prove to everyone that she can do a man's job and run her late uncle's farm. I loved how she was not perfect, but a flawed character. The characters, male and female, all had plenty of hamartia, though I couldn't help mentally berating Bathsheba the whole way through for making stupid decisions and her taste in men.
However, I felt that the book, being written by a man and despite portraying Bathsheba as headstrong and the Victorian era's version of a feminist, had an element of "The Taming of the Shrew" to it - in that the heroine's flaws are such that she is not worthy of romantic happiness until she has suffered tragedy as a result of her own bad decisions, and then, finally, when she has been brought down into humility and a little bit of sadness, then, and only then, is she able to finally meet the destiny she should have been able to arrive at two hundred pages ago.
However, I felt that the book, being written by a man and despite portraying Bathsheba as headstrong and the Victorian era's version of a feminist, had an element of "The Taming of the Shrew" to it - in that the heroine's flaws are such that she is not worthy of romantic happiness until she has suffered tragedy as a result of her own bad decisions, and then, finally, when she has been brought down into humility and a little bit of sadness, then, and only then, is she able to finally meet the destiny she should have been able to arrive at two hundred pages ago.