brokentune
Written on May 17, 2014
"All the female guests were huddled aghast against the walls like sheep in a storm, and the men were bewildered as to what to do."
Thomas Hardy and I don't gel. Maybe it's the...Read more
Review first posted on BookLikes: http://brokentune.booklikes.com/post/888908/far-from-the-madding-crowd
"All the female guests were huddled aghast against the walls like sheep in a storm, and the men were bewildered as to what to do."
Thomas Hardy and I don't gel. Maybe it's the pastoral setting, maybe it's the rather monotonous way he tells a story, maybe it was the endless descriptions of sheep and the use of sheep-symbolism in this book, but Hardy just does not do anything for me.
I get the book. I get Hardy's writing. But, as with Tess, he just does not persuade me to care about any of the characters.
I will persevere with two or three more titles - two on the recommendation of BL friends and Return of the Native because the audio book is read by Alan Rickman.
"All the female guests were huddled aghast against the walls like sheep in a storm, and the men were bewildered as to what to do."
Thomas Hardy and I don't gel. Maybe it's the pastoral setting, maybe it's the rather monotonous way he tells a story, maybe it was the endless descriptions of sheep and the use of sheep-symbolism in this book, but Hardy just does not do anything for me.
I get the book. I get Hardy's writing. But, as with Tess, he just does not persuade me to care about any of the characters.
I will persevere with two or three more titles - two on the recommendation of BL friends and Return of the Native because the audio book is read by Alan Rickman.
