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tomleetang 's review for:

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
2.0

A miserable, miserable book. I could believe somebody who said they liked this book because it dissects the usefulness of religion; I could believe somebody who said they liked this book because it questions the happiness of marriage; I could believe somebody who said they liked this book because of its moral outrage at the way a good education is kept out of the reach of the poor, thus dooming them to narrow lives.

But I cannot believe anybody has read this book and said they liked the miserable, foolish characters; the miserable, morbid plot; or the miserable, dreary language that fills the pages.

"Done because we are too menny" - that line broke my heart though.