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Summary: Wondrous Insight
Review: First off, it is surprising to me to read a male author so comfortable in the female perspective. But DeFoe definitely is comfortable and superb as he presents the 'memoirs' of Moll Flanders from the time that she is given up by her mother in Newgate through a turbulent and action packed life. He presents her flawed choices as reasonable under the circumstances in each case. And what choices they are! The best punch is about three quarters of the way through the book when she is starting to get on in years and is trying to better her position through marriage. He, through her, chastises women who put too little value on themselves. He/She spells out certain rules to gain control in relationships with men and how to best watch for your own interests. It struck me that this would be useful information for a young girl to read today (or any unmarried woman for that matter). If you are concerned about giving a book to a young girl that contains premarital sex, theft and a score of other things you wouldn't want her to do - don't be. DeFoe presents the memoirs as a warning, a parable if you will, and Ms. Flanders is always repentent. This is standard DeFoe style - and a wonderful story.
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Summary: Wondrous Insight
Review: First off, it is surprising to me to read a male author so comfortable in the female perspective. But DeFoe definitely is comfortable and superb as he presents the 'memoirs' of Moll Flanders from the time that she is given up by her mother in Newgate through a turbulent and action packed life. He presents her flawed choices as reasonable under the circumstances in each case. And what choices they are! The best punch is about three quarters of the way through the book when she is starting to get on in years and is trying to better her position through marriage. He, through her, chastises women who put too little value on themselves. He/She spells out certain rules to gain control in relationships with men and how to best watch for your own interests. It struck me that this would be useful information for a young girl to read today (or any unmarried woman for that matter). If you are concerned about giving a book to a young girl that contains premarital sex, theft and a score of other things you wouldn't want her to do - don't be. DeFoe presents the memoirs as a warning, a parable if you will, and Ms. Flanders is always repentent. This is standard DeFoe style - and a wonderful story.
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Summary: Women's Plight in the Eighteenth Century
Review: Having read this book I came away with an understanding of life for a woman of little social standing in the eighteenth century. Moll's story is a romp, but sheds light on poverty and the difficulties of independent living during a time when the world was truly controlled by men. Moll Flanders shows the importance of survival over childrearing, and gives the reader insight into daily eighteenth century life. I read it primarily to get a look at the time period.
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Summary: Movie: Misguiding of book
Review: Having watched the movie version of this book starring Robin Wright and Morgan Freeman. I went on a quest to read the book and, of course, turned to Amazon.com for purchase. However the reviews of the book do not match the movie. The movie portrays Moll as a "born in a prison, prostitute" and the reviews portray her as a "mulitple marriage failing mother" (In which case, the movie version of a book, has yet again disappointed the reader, much like "Gone with the Wind" did. Both were masterpieces, but the movie was rather disappointing after reading the book.) If you're reading Moll Flanders based on viewing the movie, like I have done, please don't let it disuade you. Read on....
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Summary: spelling
Review: how can i read a review from someone who cant even spell the title correct. its a little thing called going over your message when your done
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Summary: a book worth reading, but only once
Review: I enjoyed the ending of the book because I felt as if I knew Moll but I felt the plot repeated itself and she continiously did the same things. Parts dragged but her strong will is inspirational. If you're a lover of classic novels, you'll enjoy this.
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Summary: Disappointing.Very!
Review: I expected a lot from this book.I was very disappointed.And to think I read it to the last letter.Sure,it speaks about about the fate of a woman in the 18th cenetury,a very rare thing in those times,because nobody cared about poor women or independent women(a ridiculous notion then)or "bad" women and why they became bad.But,it is not good literature.Almost half of it is an inventory of the things she (Mall)stole,robbed,cheated ... If it were a 150 pages shorter,it would have been a much better book.Save your time and energy for a much better book,and there are many of those!
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Summary: Superb! This book exceeded all of my expectations!
Review: I had known of this book for years, but never picked it up because of what I thought that I knew about DeFoe's writing. The day I did, however, I was shocked to find a timely, vivid, and extremely compelling novel.
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Summary: Made me sorry to have the gift of sight.
Review: I had to read this for a book club, and a fifth of the way into it, I began to wish I were blind, so I wouldn't have to continue. I considered gouging my eyes out with a grapefruit spoon. And if someone tried to read aloud it to me, I was prepared to pour hot parrafin into my ears. And if Anne Sullivan tried to sign "Moll Flanders" into my hand, I would dig into my wrists and sever the nerves to my hand with a carpet knife. Then if someone tried to tap the text of this book onto my back using Morse Code, I would be left with no course of action other than suicide. As it was, I completed my book club obligation, and as soon as we're done discussing this, I'm going to bandsaw open my cranium, locate the part of the brain that remembers I read this book, and scoop it out with a melonballer. Wish me luck!
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Summary: good story but annoying as well
Review: I have been trying to read this book for several months now and I can't become interested enough to get into it for more than one or two evenings a month. The story itself is intriguing but seems to go on forever, though the novel itself is quite short. Keeping all the men in Moll's life straight gets confusing. Renting the movie would be much less cumbersome.
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