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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
2.61 overall
2.6 for the writing
2.63 for the story
This book was dreadfully boring most of the time, boring, but not dreadfully so half the time, and decent for very little of the time.
The author is far too verbose and spends too much time on things that are not very relevant to the plot of the story. It felt like I was reading the essay of a college student who's finished with his paper but is still a few pages short of the word count minimum so he/she/they add tons of superfluous information just for the sake of meeting the required word count.
The plot of the story itself is rather trite. The entirety of the book can be summed up thusly:
Married woman is not happy with husband or social status, despite having a very loving husband and being fairly well to do, and instead cheats on husband with two different men, bankrupts him through her insatiable desire for the finer things in life, and indirectly kills him due to the heartbreak she caused him.
2.6 for the writing
2.63 for the story
This book was dreadfully boring most of the time, boring, but not dreadfully so half the time, and decent for very little of the time.
The author is far too verbose and spends too much time on things that are not very relevant to the plot of the story. It felt like I was reading the essay of a college student who's finished with his paper but is still a few pages short of the word count minimum so he/she/they add tons of superfluous information just for the sake of meeting the required word count.
The plot of the story itself is rather trite. The entirety of the book can be summed up thusly:
Married woman is not happy with husband or social status, despite having a very loving husband and being fairly well to do, and instead cheats on husband with two different men, bankrupts him through her insatiable desire for the finer things in life, and indirectly kills him due to the heartbreak she caused him.