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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-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
dark
emotional
funny
slow-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
It's Dickens, sewing up threads, some like you thought, others not. A classic tale of rich and poor/method and love. Redemption for Gradgrind, self-righteous lonliness for Bounderby.
Erm, this one I marked "read" and probably shouldn't have, but I definitely didn't want it on my 'to-read' list, so. I skimmed parts. I was depressed. I read SparkNotes before my exam. I got an A.
It's probably not as bad as I think it is. It's just that book among my English major friends. It's packaged with the later Norton Anthologies, so everyone has to read it, because everyone has to take British Literature post-1700, and it's everybody's last survey class, and you say the words "Hard Times" out loud, and everyone just groans. No vehement condemnation, but a table full of groans says plenty.
It's probably not as bad as I think it is. It's just that book among my English major friends. It's packaged with the later Norton Anthologies, so everyone has to read it, because everyone has to take British Literature post-1700, and it's everybody's last survey class, and you say the words "Hard Times" out loud, and everyone just groans. No vehement condemnation, but a table full of groans says plenty.
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The name's pretty fitting considering i had a really fucking hard time trying to read this. Excruciating.
medium-paced
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A cautionary tale as to why a conservative education minister would make a terrible school teacher. If you only teach children what you can test them on, you deprive them of their true education, their moral compass and their ability to express themselves.
Also Bounderby is a bounder and a cad.
Also Bounderby is a bounder and a cad.