qui_b 's review for:

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
1.0

Our family was reading this out loud and what a snooze-fest!  Scott is so wordy that many pages contain only a couple of extremely run-on sentences.  Ivanhoe is just one of many characters; we rarely see things from his point of view.  The antisemitism is hard to take, although Scott seems to be taking a stand against it, unfortunately in the guise of his worst character, while depicting Isaac of York as inconceivably money-grubbing.  Did people really say “thee” and “thy” in the 12th century?  Adventure stories sure have changed!