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I'm stopping. I can't spend time with these people anymore.
Bathsheba is excruciating. She is spoiled, selfish and unkind, much like the Prince who became a Beast, and beautiful as she is reported to be she is ugly because her personality is ugly. I hear tell that she is becoming something of a feminist icon these days. I sure hope not. I can't imagine any intelligent, strong willed woman who would want to behave like a toddler throwing a fit at bedtime. It's not strength. It's selfishness.
But t ...more
Bathsheba is excruciating. She is spoiled, selfish and unkind, much like the Prince who became a Beast, and beautiful as she is reported to be she is ugly because her personality is ugly. I hear tell that she is becoming something of a feminist icon these days. I sure hope not. I can't imagine any intelligent, strong willed woman who would want to behave like a toddler throwing a fit at bedtime. It's not strength. It's selfishness.
But t ...more
Now I MUST read the book after this great BBC dramatization.
I love Thomas Hardy. He's so full of poetry and tragedy and fulfills my need to feel like I'm living in some English countryside. I found Bathsheba thoroughly irritating until I read this paragraph at the beginning of chapter 29:
'Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is ...more
'Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is ...more
I don't get along with Thomas Hardy's novel. Their tragedy, his women and the two pages long descriptions about cows are just not my thing (although I loved the paragraphs about sheep in this book). Even so I really enjoyed this one. It was a lot of fun and I tried not to be to judgy.
If you are looking for an unpredictable plot line this ain't one, but if you are looking for an interesting book to read (that happens to talk a lot about sheep) then we have a winner. Personally, I enjoyed it a lo ...more
If you are looking for an unpredictable plot line this ain't one, but if you are looking for an interesting book to read (that happens to talk a lot about sheep) then we have a winner. Personally, I enjoyed it a lo ...more
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