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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
Ah, the classic novel that sets the standard for all modern novels and also serves as a warning against women reading novels!
I listened to it as an audiobook on Hoopla. The reader for it, Simon Vance, was pretty good.
I'm glad to have read it and I do see how it, as a realist novel, launched the modern storytelling we know of novels now.
Published in 1857, it was surprising to me how much atheism was a part of the book, just a few decades after the Second Great Awakening in the US, but this was in France and maybe this was a backlash to that movement-. I don't know enough about that. It just found it a little funny because I was not expecting that- it felt anachronistic from my knowledge about the era, but that probably tells you more about my shortcomings in knowledge!
It also seems like a silly book and I think you're supposed to feel that way about Emma- she's silly and wants to be always in love and surrounded by pretty things and that is her ruin. It's a cautionary tale- it ruins her, her husband, and eventually her daughter. Literally a textbook tragedy. Classic anti-romance tale. Ha!
I listened to it as an audiobook on Hoopla. The reader for it, Simon Vance, was pretty good.
I'm glad to have read it and I do see how it, as a realist novel, launched the modern storytelling we know of novels now.
Published in 1857, it was surprising to me how much atheism was a part of the book, just a few decades after the Second Great Awakening in the US, but this was in France and maybe this was a backlash to that movement-. I don't know enough about that. It just found it a little funny because I was not expecting that- it felt anachronistic from my knowledge about the era, but that probably tells you more about my shortcomings in knowledge!
It also seems like a silly book and I think you're supposed to feel that way about Emma- she's silly and wants to be always in love and surrounded by pretty things and that is her ruin. It's a cautionary tale- it ruins her, her husband, and eventually her daughter. Literally a textbook tragedy. Classic anti-romance tale. Ha!
challenging
dark
funny
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
A French, less tragic & more sarcastic-humoured, version of Tess of the d'Urbervilles
"For the first and last time of his life, he uttered a deep thought."
7.5 - I felt the beginning was strong and more concise
"For the first and last time of his life, he uttered a deep thought."
7.5 - I felt the beginning was strong and more concise
sad
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Shows you what real love is. Almost made me cry at the end.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
sad
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:
Yes
Goede klassieker, een echte roman die het dramatische leven van Emma Bovary (geïnspireerd op een waargebeurd verhaal!) op een heel interessante manier vertelt. Het ritme en de vertelstijl van het boek zijn zeer tekenend en spreken de verbeelding aan... Mooie weergave van hoe het leven toen was, of kon zijn.
Well written, and never boring, but UGH, the story. This whiny, spoiled, self-indulgent, self-serving female is depressing. Hopefully this story has inspired many a bored women never to fall into an adulterous affair! LOL!
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes