<p>Ahhhh I'm so proud of myself I just finished this book. It was really good. Now i'm starting on Madame Bovary.</p>
<p>I can't believe you actually started this thread...<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>haha okay okay i'm sorry i know i am the master of pointless threads</p>
<p>that was pointless. I thought that there was going to be a discussion or something. It is a great book.</p>
<p>i thought it was about as interesting as watching paint dry. but that's just me!!!</p>
<p>yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh blah blah blah I am SOOOO bored</p>
<p>ah that was enuff intellectuel stuff pher me today!</p>
<p>hated this book lol. too emo... (imo) everything goes bad with tess, and I was hoping for a happy ending. But then again Hardy is known for his sad endings.</p>
<p>i liked it. i read it in 9th (?) grade expecting it to be horrible, but i really liked it</p>
<p>hmm, just finished 'lust for life'. Moving on, are we starting new threads each time somebody finishes a book?</p>
<p>I'm in the middle of War and Peace when Prince Andrey is about to die. lol</p>
<p>By the way, I read Madame Bovary in simplified French. I didn't really like it and thought it was cliche. But then again I would have appreciated it much more if I had read the complete English version. I haven't read Anna Karenina, but maybe it's similar to the plot in Madame Bovary.</p>
<p>I read Tess of the D'Urbervilles earlier this year...LOVED IT. Everyone else in my class thought it was too dry, too descriptive, very boring...But it brings up so many issue-raising questions that are relevant in today's society. Ever since I read it, I refer to the character Tess as this archetype/epitome of the female victim of the gender double-standard in conversations on that topic. One of my all time favorites!</p>