Far From the Madding Crowd in Never too Late to Read Classics

Apr 08, 2014 Chrissie rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: great-britain, 2014-read, audible-us, classics, hf, love, vietnam

Corny, but cute - the ending I mean. I knew from the first chapter how it would end, and my guess proved to be right. OK, I admit I was laughing by the book's end, but I was laughing AT the book not with the characters! A predictable and boring love story. ....with a dash of feminism thrown in. It is boring because the point made is so simple. Women like to be told they are needed, desired, wanted. I will not name who was so thick-headed.

Published in 1874, it was Hardy's first literary success, ...more

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Oct 08, 2017 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, vic-lit, read-the-world, read-the-world-2018-2020, 1001-books, favorites

Victober 2017

I absolutely loved this book! It is the first time I have read Thomas Hardy and I have more that I have moved WAY UP the TBR pile. The interesting thing about my fervor for this book is that I truly disliked Bathsheba Everdene. I found her to be vain, simpering and boring. And I am a reader who loves books for their complex and intriguing characters. So how the heck did this one rate 5 stars? I am not sure I can even explain it... bur Hardy write beautifully intricate and poetic sen ...more

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May 18, 2020 Karen rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001

3.5 stars. I've now read two books by Hardy, Jude the Obscure is the other one. I'm still not quite sure what I think of Hardy. Yes, he is a good writer and I like the descriptions of Rural England. I'm not quite sure I like his characters or plots.

Bathsheba Everdene is a poor girl, yet very beautiful. While visiting her aunt, she meets Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer and saves his life. Oak, falling in love with Bathsheba asks her to marry him. She refuses and returns home.
Oak loses his farm throu ...more

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