skullcutter02 's review for:

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

4.5

adventurous emotional relaxing 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

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This book shows playing the long game works as long as you remain stoic loyal and a decent human being. Bathsheba may be impulsive and crazy sometimes but she ain't stupid. Boldwood is off the rocker and he needs to go jerk himself off to relieve his horniness. Troy is like this novel's Wickham but less evil. 

Hardy being an English man himself depicts the English countryside like no other English author has done. It feels lush and pastorale, like I'm in a Vaughan Williams or Edward Elgar piece. His descriptions of the countryside are deeply poetic but never excessively verbose.