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autumnalia 's review for:
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
I read this a couple times as a kid, and just re-listened to it because Simon Vance was the narrator. He's fantastic, but this book is NOT.
I'm dropping the star rating to a 3 from a 4. I admire Anna Sewell for promoting humane treatment of animals, but the random episodic feel of the narrative, the depressing catalogue of mistreatment of animals, and the pervasive Victorian moralizing makes this book a serious downer. It needs rounding out in terms of narrative, and its purpose would still have been served if Sewell had given us a more developed story.
I'm dropping the star rating to a 3 from a 4. I admire Anna Sewell for promoting humane treatment of animals, but the random episodic feel of the narrative, the depressing catalogue of mistreatment of animals, and the pervasive Victorian moralizing makes this book a serious downer. It needs rounding out in terms of narrative, and its purpose would still have been served if Sewell had given us a more developed story.