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Christine PNW
Mar 24, 2015 rated it really liked it
Two people have complained that there are spoilers in this review. Read at your own peril.

Hi! I'm Bathsheba Everdene!



And I'm Poor Decision-Making Bathsheba Everdene.



I sent a random Valentine to a guy on a neighboring farm asking him to marry me, even though I don't even like him! This turned him into an annoying semi-stalker who spent the next several years begging me to marry him for reals!

And then, in a further display of my terrible judgment, I married a philandering asshole who on ...more
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Sara
Jan 23, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: classics, literary-fiction
Thomas Hardy is a writer who paints. He paints pictures of the environment his characters inhabit, he paints pictures of the society they are a part of, and he paints pictures of the people, and makes them stand before you full-blown and detailed. That is probably one of the reasons I love reading Hardy so much. Each of the major characters in Far From the Madding Crowd walks off the page and becomes quite real.

Bathsheba Everdene is a complicated woman in a world where women were so often portra ...more
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