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leviathandreamer 's review for:
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
Writing this 'review' as a reminder of how it made me feel.
This was probably one of the most miserable books I've ever read. It frustrated me to no end, I hated most of the characters, and the ones I didn't hate made me want to slap them in the face. I hated the dialect used in some dialogues which made it difficult to read and understand at times, when I was already struggling to keep my fucking sanity in check. I hated the anxiety-inducing Victorian setting, because you know there's gonna be a female character going batshit insane and you know that if someone catches a cold they're gonna die.
It's been miserable from the very start, but even still there's a certain scene close to the end of the book where it goes from 0 to 10000 really quick, and it's probably the only book that made me wish I read about it beforehand or that there was a trigger warning of a sort, because holy shit. I applaud the author for including the scene because it takes guts, but it's especially bizarre as things such as sex or pregnancy or never explicitly mentioned or talked about. We don't even learn about Jude's and Sue's children being born,
The only positive thing about the book is that it ends, I guess. I really hated this book, but clearly not because it's awful. I hate it because it's brilliant and great at depicting awful things. I 100 % understand Hardy just straight up quitting writing novels after finishing this. There's no going back from this.
This was probably one of the most miserable books I've ever read. It frustrated me to no end, I hated most of the characters, and the ones I didn't hate made me want to slap them in the face. I hated the dialect used in some dialogues which made it difficult to read and understand at times, when I was already struggling to keep my fucking sanity in check. I hated the anxiety-inducing Victorian setting, because you know there's gonna be a female character going batshit insane and you know that if someone catches a cold they're gonna die.
It's been miserable from the very start, but even still there's a certain scene close to the end of the book where it goes from 0 to 10000 really quick, and it's probably the only book that made me wish I read about it beforehand or that there was a trigger warning of a sort, because holy shit. I applaud the author for including the scene because it takes guts, but it's especially bizarre as things such as sex or pregnancy or never explicitly mentioned or talked about. We don't even learn about Jude's and Sue's children being born,
Spoiler
but we sure as hell learn about them being dead.The only positive thing about the book is that it ends, I guess. I really hated this book, but clearly not because it's awful. I hate it because it's brilliant and great at depicting awful things. I 100 % understand Hardy just straight up quitting writing novels after finishing this. There's no going back from this.