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I've spent too much of my life reading and rereading this book. For me it is Hardy's masterpiece (well, along with Tess of the d'Urbervilles), and I find something new each time I go back - but I really need to leave it some years now before I read 'Jude' again. Just to add that I like the movie with Christopher Eccleston better than the series with Robert Powell, even though the series sticks closer to the text. Somehow the Eccleston version gets the spirit more.
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Like all of Hardy's books, Jude contains great writing. However, at this point I hit the wall of Hardy. Every bad thing that can possibly happen, does. At one point, I said "C'mon Dude." It almost becomes laughable, but not quite, since at this point, Hardy seems pretty humorless. Interestingly, I believe Hardy quit writing novels after Jude due to the negative reaction. It's a real bummer of a read.
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Having finally finished this book after a long hiatus, I can see why Hardy gave up writing fiction after completing this work! I can see paternal resemblances in Jude, which only seemed to bring a more somber reading to the text, and hope that things turn out well for the character, at least in his relation to his cousin Sue. Given that this is a Hardy story, I shouldn't have been too surprise at the depressing, albeit realistic, ending and that the story seemed to drag on, with the characters s
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I have read several reviews on this book. Most people didn't like it. I can't say that I loved this book, but I did like it in some ways. It was indeed tragic. Hardy blamed Religion and Society's attitude for the problems of the average person in England.
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May 11, 2008
Kevin
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it was amazing
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Laura
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Kat (A Journey In Reading)
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