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j_f 's review for:
North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell
This book didn't make much of an impression on me. I didn't want to quit reading it, but I could easily put it down at any time.
Namely, the characters were bland. They didn't have that much depth and felt like caricatures. On top of that, the situations they were placed in were so unremarkable and so... real world. I felt like I was reading what would have, at the time, been a contemporary novel, rather than a literary novel. It also made it difficult to care about the romance or any character's misfortune, because I didn't care who struggled or who fell in love.
This is a pretty run-of-the-mill 19th-century book, and not nearly as culturally significant as, say, Jane Austen.
Namely, the characters were bland. They didn't have that much depth and felt like caricatures. On top of that, the situations they were placed in were so unremarkable and so... real world. I felt like I was reading what would have, at the time, been a contemporary novel, rather than a literary novel. It also made it difficult to care about the romance or any character's misfortune, because I didn't care who struggled or who fell in love.
This is a pretty run-of-the-mill 19th-century book, and not nearly as culturally significant as, say, Jane Austen.