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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A long redundant, boring book about horrible people.... a couple really horrible and a few less horrible but still horrible. I can say I've read it but it really added nothing to my knowledge about it or my pleasure by reading it.
Bottom line: skip it and just watch the movie.
Bottom line: skip it and just watch the movie.
Is interesting because the author talks to the reader. Interesting setting with ideas on the values of British society. However, the novel is WAY too long and gets boring. It took me a month to read, which is a very long time for me! There is so much pointless crap and filler. Amelia is overly ridiculous but Becky Sharp is an awesome character and is funny. Although I wish in the end she would have ended up happier, but such is life.
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
slow-paced
this was so boring *cries*
william thackeray you did not have to write that many pages i promise !
i wish we got to spend more time with Becky and less with Amelia because one was clearly more fun to read about than the other (i <3 becky) but overall this was very fun and a genuinely funny and interesting satire. very glad i read it and i think it made my brain grow
i wish we got to spend more time with Becky and less with Amelia because one was clearly more fun to read about than the other (i <3 becky) but overall this was very fun and a genuinely funny and interesting satire. very glad i read it and i think it made my brain grow
One of my all-time favourites, which is a bit of a surprise because I don't actually like anything else he's written, and Lord knows I've tried. (And tried again, because perhaps I was the wrong age, but I'm 53 now and his other novels are still boring).
This is anything but. He's at his bitchiest here, in the most delightful way, and you both adore and loathe the protagonist (she's kind of a pre-Scarlett O'Hara, only worse), which is niftily done. And his arch narrative voice is essential—the same plot, in the hands of somebody else, would not achieve the same effect (unless it were a genius like Dickens. If you like Dickens at his best, this will achieve a similar end for you).
Don't shy away because it's old, or a supposed "classic," it's as fresh as a just-picked lemon. The first chapter ends with our "heroine" flinging a large dictionary at the head of the nice old lady who felt sorry for her ... this is not your usual novel, and you realise it early on.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). I feel a lot of readers automatically render any book they enjoy 5, but I grade on a curve!
This is anything but. He's at his bitchiest here, in the most delightful way, and you both adore and loathe the protagonist (she's kind of a pre-Scarlett O'Hara, only worse), which is niftily done. And his arch narrative voice is essential—the same plot, in the hands of somebody else, would not achieve the same effect (unless it were a genius like Dickens. If you like Dickens at his best, this will achieve a similar end for you).
Don't shy away because it's old, or a supposed "classic," it's as fresh as a just-picked lemon. The first chapter ends with our "heroine" flinging a large dictionary at the head of the nice old lady who felt sorry for her ... this is not your usual novel, and you realise it early on.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). I feel a lot of readers automatically render any book they enjoy 5, but I grade on a curve!
After page 600 or so, I liked this better than two stars, but seriously, who besides me is going to wait that long for a book to pick up?
A good book with great characters and a wonderful narrator but a somewhat disappointing ending.
challenging
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It's a classic- of course it's 5 stars! Now I can go watch the miniseries.
funny
lighthearted
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