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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO LÉON?????????????????????? ale jesus christ kurwa mać why was this actually a shakespearean tragedy
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
dark
emotional
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Flaubert’s prose is achingly beautiful. Often I was waiting for the plot (fun and infuriating as it was) to get out of the way so he could describe the scenery again.
i kinda don't know what i think right now. the first bit i loved. then....it's just all so sad. so i feel really melancholy at the moment. but it's also a bit ridiculous, isn't it? like, over-the-top. i get that at the time this came out, it was scandalous. and poor flaubert had to go on trial to defend against obscenity charges (it's okay! he was acquitted!) so i am trying to put myself back in 1856. and trying to grasp the relativity of emma's problems.
emma's quest, constantly, to find happiness through money - living beyond her means (which were pretty good), buying and acquiring stuff to compensate for sadness or a perceived lack/hole in her life, coupled with some ideal of love that probably could never exist in reality just makes for a fraught and impossible life.
i am also trying to figure out if emma was just that misguided, like, truly and utterly misguided in thinking money and real love would bring her happiness. or, if there were underlying issues? heh, that's right, a little psychoanalysis with your fiction! why not?! whee!! but really - how could i not? emma's mental and emotional abilities are so disconnected from reality in a way that is far beyond any sort of dreamy romanticism...i think, anyway.
for me...i would have liked a little more on charles bovary to round out the story. and i am not sure the point of berthe? why introduce the child at all?
i suspect i will be thinking on this one a while and it may be a book whose rating increases as i get further out from the read. maybe. i am so glad i finally read it!
emma's quest, constantly, to find happiness through money - living beyond her means (which were pretty good), buying and acquiring stuff to compensate for sadness or a perceived lack/hole in her life, coupled with some ideal of love that probably could never exist in reality just makes for a fraught and impossible life.
i am also trying to figure out if emma was just that misguided, like, truly and utterly misguided in thinking money and real love would bring her happiness. or, if there were underlying issues? heh, that's right, a little psychoanalysis with your fiction! why not?! whee!! but really - how could i not? emma's mental and emotional abilities are so disconnected from reality in a way that is far beyond any sort of dreamy romanticism...i think, anyway.
for me...i would have liked a little more on charles bovary to round out the story. and i am not sure the point of berthe? why introduce the child at all?
i suspect i will be thinking on this one a while and it may be a book whose rating increases as i get further out from the read. maybe. i am so glad i finally read it!
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
reflective
slow-paced
Emma just became more and more irritating until I just stopped caring what happened. Charles was also obnoxious, just in a different way. Ultimately I read a spoiler summary and realized the rest of the plot was not worth the time. I hate cheating in books anyway so I was already prepared to DNF if I wasn’t enjoying it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated