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I liked this book a lot: Lots of family sagas and plot movement. Yes, the language is a little bit archaic, but hey, it's classic literature!
Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a Parisian actress, is very determined to make do all sort of ridiculous social machinations. She's a piece of work. I thought that the movie with whats-her-name was a poor rendition of the novel.
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Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a Parisian actress, is very determined to make do all sort of ridiculous social machinations. She's a piece of work. I thought that the movie with whats-her-name was a poor rendition of the novel.
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Jun 04, 2007
Marion for a Free Palestine
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Whew! Well, that took long enough! But, I must say, I really enjoyed every phase of reading this book, and although I read it off and on over the course of several months, I felt very involved and interested in the story the whole time. Becky Sharp is indeed a fascinating and complicated character (although perhaps not quite so complicated as some critics make her out to be!), but the character that I grew to love most, and that Thackeray himself seems to grow more fond of as the story goes on i
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I had mixed feelings about this book. While it is a well written and compelling view of it's time, I found that Becky is often shallow and unrealistic and vapid. Of course Thackeray probably meant for her to be that way, but the way she is written it seems pretty clear that he never KNEW a woman, at least not in any capacity that would have allowed him to ask her about the workings of the 'woman's world'. She is just so...so...MANLY in all of her scheming. The same thing can be said for Amilia,
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If this book had ended any other way William Makepeace Thackeray would have made war with me. That being said, it is a wonderful character study and really gets one to think about what true love means, and how important character is in relationships.
For all intents and purposes, Thackeray is successful in his goal for this book. He establishes a "Heroine" who is unlikable and wicked. The recent movie based on this book changed the ending to make Becky seem more likable. There is nothing worse then Hollywood trying to justify the characters by changing the book and its intentions. Thackeray successfully made a mockery of the type of people he wrote about and it continues to bore people today.
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Jun 18, 2008
Jen Donnelly
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Beth Summerour
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erin
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claire
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Mar 02, 2015
Mandy
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Jan 14, 2017
Sarah
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