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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

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. Week 2: Romance

* Week 2: Introduction
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Feb 16, 2012 Stephanie rated it really liked it

Ah the beauty of being an english major and taking a western literature course. I read a great number of absolutely boring things in that class, and pretended to read (without even cracking the book) a few others. Madame Bovary was one I started with no intention of getting very far at all before giving up.

I was wrong. Though pieces of this book (large pieces) were so very boring and rambling, the main story was wonderfully scandalous. I skimmed the boring, obviously non-important stuff and read ...more

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Jan 16, 2012 Dianneb rated it liked it

I'm conflicted between giving this book a 2 or a 3. I liked a lot of the book but some parts of it were "just okay". The main character was so infuriating in parts of the story that I wanted to reach in and slap her silly!! She had a daughter to whom she paid scant attention; her wants and desires came first before anyone else - did not care about her much and frankly at some points I had to say she deserved what she got. In the end I gave it a 3 because there were more parts I liked than were j ...more

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