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A review by charlottekupsh
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray
2.0
Henry Esmond is a shitty, bitter dude and his ideas about women suck. This book took me 2 months to read and it was mostly a waste of time. Maybe you'll like this book if you really love Jacobite history and repetitive character building and subplots, but it's not for me.
I loved Pendennis, but I'm over Thackeray after Henry Esmond for the following reasons:
-Women are treated like absolute crap, in ways that are excessive even for this book's time. (& If Beatrix is such a bad person, why does Henry want her for THE ENTIRE BOOK? Beatrix clearly isn't the one with issues here. At least she was always honest about what she was up to. Give her a freaking break.)
-The romantic ending of this book is creepy and predictable, and yet somehow Thackeray failed to build up to it enough to make it believable.
-The narrator is bearable for the first half of the book but becomes pompous and self righteous by the end.
-There's a lot of war and it's boring.
-omg Henry either give up your title and stop whining or take it and use it. You can't have it both ways.
-HE KEEPS CHASING THE SAME GIRL FOR THE WHOLE BOOK AND DOES NOT DEVELOP AS A CHARACTER IN ANY WAY.
I loved Pendennis, but I'm over Thackeray after Henry Esmond for the following reasons:
-Women are treated like absolute crap, in ways that are excessive even for this book's time. (& If Beatrix is such a bad person, why does Henry want her for THE ENTIRE BOOK? Beatrix clearly isn't the one with issues here. At least she was always honest about what she was up to. Give her a freaking break.)
-The romantic ending of this book is creepy and predictable, and yet somehow Thackeray failed to build up to it enough to make it believable.
-The narrator is bearable for the first half of the book but becomes pompous and self righteous by the end.
-There's a lot of war and it's boring.
-omg Henry either give up your title and stop whining or take it and use it. You can't have it both ways.
-HE KEEPS CHASING THE SAME GIRL FOR THE WHOLE BOOK AND DOES NOT DEVELOP AS A CHARACTER IN ANY WAY.