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Summary: THIS BOOK BLOWS
Review: I recommend this book as kindling for a fire. It is the worst book that could have possibly been written. If you want to read this, jump off the nearest bridge or very tall building (without a parachute). That's probably the most similar experience to reading this book. Thank you, and have a good day.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: What I have written below is the assignment of my homework. (I'm a 9th grade student)Tess's life was destroyed by men who loved her. But the right man hesitated, and the wrong man found her first. This was how her life was ruined and how miserable she was. If you want more derails, it is better for you to read the book yourself. This book is a perfect demonstration that bad things happened to good people. But I have to admitt that it is quite difficult to struggle through the beginning. But after a few chapters, enjoyment continued filling my heart and eventually I could not stop reading untill i have finished it. Alec d'Urbervill was the man who destroyed Tess's life. Tess met with lots of knotty difficulties in her life. It is fallacious to say that ir was her fault. Tess is really a complex character. Her life was full of love , hate, depression and misery. Fortunately, she met Angel Clare who filled her heart with happiness. Good writing do not often go hand in hand. But Hardy did it. THis is a tragic story. Why is the world so unfair? Hardy used a magical way to write this book. Once you start, you can't stop. As you travel through this book, you will find yourself lost in admiration for the strong, honest woman. Hardy showed me the true colours of depreesion and hapiness. He did a nice job and i did appreciate it. It is definitely the most beautifully crafted book i have ever read. This book is truly worth reading and I hope you are not going to miss it.
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Summary: An unfortunately boring book
Review: I'm a fan of classics, but I could not force myself to struggle through this book. I could neither identify with the characters (Tess especially seemed extraordinarily weak-willed and passive) nor follow through the endless description of the novel. Iw ould suggest a different book
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Summary: Tragic , Sorry and Uplifting
Review: The great thing about Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the poetry and the depth of the main character. Tess is an extremely complex character and yet a very simple person. It is hard to explain her: Hardy seems totally in emphatuated with his character. She is a thing of beauty like a beautiful flower growing on the road side. The flower knows nothing of why it is or how it grows, and so Tess is naive of her existance and surroundings only driven by the knee-jerk of her emotion, egged on and commented on the romantic and love struck Hardy. Hardy makes a character , falls in love with her and then day-dreams about her. Guarding her innocence amd jealously defending it by - 1)making her so complex that no other character in the book can love ,know and understand her truely. 2)She ends up tragic so no one else can have her. Thus destroying her and tearing himself away from his ideal. It is true he builds her up only to tear her down. Such a tragic figure makes the reader feel a lament amd deep sorrow for Tess having tried to fathom her whilst becoming enchanted by her. I found all of this made the book frustrating and it flawed the main character. It is a very difficult, long and hard book to read- which would have made the book very hard to write by anyone other than a very idealistic romantic poet. 4 stars because I am a romantic fool for Tess as well.
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Summary: Beautiful, Painful.
Review: Tess of the D'Urbervilles is an intensely depressing but brilliant depiction of the connections between love, fear, and guilt. The vivid clarity with which Hardy draws Tess as a vulnerable innocent struggling, and ultimately failing to come to terms with the merciless world makes this a masterpiece.
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Summary: LOVE LOVE LOVE...ALL THE REST IS NOTHING
Review: HARDY HAS A MAGICAL WAY OF CREATING A CHARACTER THAT EVENTUALLY BECOMES REAL TO US. REAL IN THE SENSE THAT WE CRY WITH HER, WE EMPATHIZE WITH HER AND MOST OF ALL, WE WANT THE BEST FOR HER. TESS HAD PERSONAL QUALITIES THAT WE OFTEN FIND IN OURSELVES WHICH EXPLAINS OUR NEED FOR HER TO FIND HAPPINESS. OBVIOUSLY, THEN EXPLAINING OUR SORROW WHEN THE POOR SOUL EVENTUALLY SUBMITS TO HER UNHAPPINESS BY KILLING HER LOVER. HONESTLY, CAN WE SAY THAT WE WOULD NOT DO THE SAME IN SUCH HOPELESS CONDITIONS? THERE GO I, BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD. (HENCE, THE REAL SOURCE OF OUR SYMPATHY.)
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Summary: It took me from one world to another
Review: For English class, we wre assigned to read Tess. I love to read, but however was skeptical about this book. Once I started to read it, I just couldn't stop; I finished he whole thing way before deadline. I found the story incredibly intriguing, and the feelings and emotions so real I found myself throwing the book down in anger, screaming "Darn it Tess, just marry him!" But i always picked it back up to see what would happen. It thorouhly engrossed me.
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Summary: Very, very very good.....
Review: Much else has been said. Hardy in this book describes better than anyone I have ever read, the experience of being in love. Not one sentence, not one paragraph and not one scene: It is full of the description-excellent.... Of course, this tragedy was panned by the Victorian press as pornographic and terrible....
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Summary: well pooh pooh, this book is good.
Review: There is many ways to look at this book and how it corolates to his Hardy's life but the point is I think he wanted to make this a beautiful work of art. And it is. Many girls who went through tough times in life can relate to this like I have. It might not be dramatic as this book but I have been in many situations that were unbelievable and "soap opera - ish" and I have seen all sorts of people and I do not misjudge people because everyone at one point in their lives do things out to character. This book is good and I can't say well written but it is a good piece of art.
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Summary: Description galore with a hint of action
Review: Great story but too much unreasonable descriptions took away from its overall effect. The book did a nice job of portraying life at that time and effectively made the reader feel what was intended. Good book, but could have been just as good in 150 pages instead of 400. Don't read it, watch the movie.
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