I did not enjoy the experience at the time. I still have my copy, and I have been trying to decide if I should re-read the novel or donate it somewhere.
You enjoy it. I think you might be the first person, besides my old English teacher, who has claimed that. I might have to give it another chance.
You enjoy it. I think you might be the first person, besides my old English teacher, who has claimed that. I might have to give it another chance.
Maybe. What did you not like about it then? If you don't like it, you might like some other Hardy, like The Mayor of Casterbridge .
Although the opening scene in The Mayor of Casterbridge is my favorite out of all his novels. Referenced that in a discussion of popular divorce in rural England.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
5 best books of British Authorship you've ever read
21/04/2010 08:10:56 PM
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Hmmm. Difficult.
21/04/2010 08:15:31 PM
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Harumph.
21/04/2010 08:51:25 PM
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And of course Huxley's Brave New World.
21/04/2010 08:52:49 PM
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Interesting.
21/04/2010 09:08:35 PM
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Re: Interesting.
21/04/2010 09:19:41 PM
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Without rules, peoples' best "5" becomes meaningless. Hard decisions need to be made.
21/04/2010 10:00:08 PM
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Yes, but then the number was arbitrary to begin with...
21/04/2010 10:26:02 PM
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I was forced to read JUDE the OBSCURE in high school.
21/04/2010 09:50:37 PM
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It's in my top ten books of all time.
21/04/2010 10:02:01 PM
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what are the others in your Top 10 of All Time?
21/04/2010 10:11:29 PM
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Here goes,
21/04/2010 10:36:21 PM
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...I think that's the first time I've noticed Lackey on anyone's top books list. <3
22/04/2010 12:13:26 AM
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As a gay teenager, albeit a happy one in NYC, her books were still powerful for me.
22/04/2010 01:00:21 AM
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I enjoyed it as well
21/04/2010 10:45:53 PM
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The movie version of Jude the Obscure is bad. Really bad. And doesn't make me want to read the book.
21/04/2010 10:28:44 PM
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Leaving aside the usual suspects (Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Chaucer, Hardy, Austen)
21/04/2010 10:49:35 PM
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This is a very difficult task.
22/04/2010 02:16:07 AM
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I love your number one. I love that book
22/04/2010 02:51:15 AM
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It was the book I had in mind when talking about Island at the Center of the World.
22/04/2010 02:57:32 AM
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I suppose it depends on definitions...
22/04/2010 04:34:40 PM
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Irish by accident of birth, English to the depths of his soul by the grace of God. *NM*
22/04/2010 10:12:28 PM
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Oh wow.
22/04/2010 02:29:38 AM
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just remembered the Herriot books.
24/04/2010 03:48:18 PM
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James Herriot has a special place in my heart.
25/04/2010 01:45:50 AM
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I'm going to cheat and give you two different lists
22/04/2010 06:54:18 AM
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Ooo
22/04/2010 06:54:21 PM
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If I wanted to be really specific I could say book 1: The Sword in the Stone
23/04/2010 02:37:24 AM
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