fantine525 's review for:

Ojciec Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

2.5

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

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  Judging by only the first half of this book, I thought that it’s going to be as horribly misogynistic and extremely boring as “the wild ass’ skin”, but after reading all the way to the end… I changed my mind. In the review I wanted to write about how Balzac seems to only have one type of main character (a young, innocent, poor but ambitious student, who just got to Paris and is being quickly corrupted by the big city’s extravagant style of living and falls in love with a “truly Parisian” famme fatale), but it turns out that is not exactly the case in this story. I mean, it still isn’t that much different and creative, but there is a lot more to this story than I originally thought. 
  But still, it isn’t worth more than 2,5 stars, at least in my opinion.