JoyceMary

badly written silly plot

Revisado: 02-08-20

the headline says it all. it reads
like it was written by a poorly scripted computer algorithm based
on a romance novels
which it may have been since it was
free. Avoid.

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Hard to listen to

Revisado: 02-01-20

Though I love detective novels, I've never read Simenon. Picked this one. But I wasn't prepared for the anti-Semitism and racism in this novel. It was hard to listen to, disturbing. Published in 1933 in France. Wow. A history lesson.

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masterpiece, superb

Revisado: 10-06-18

32 hours of Trollope read by Timothy West. Absolutely a great listen, fabulous. The best audible I have.
As a lifelong great fan of Trollope, I had never read this novel. This is his very best, a masterpiece. It's 4 volumes, called a satire, for the clarity and insight of his depiction of his characters and their way of life. Relevant to current politics. Some of the characters are some of the best in literature, they walk off the page. Winifred Hurtle, an American in London, a character Trollope give great depth to, but one, like with many of his characters he does not romanticize. He calls her a 'wildcat', but he also calls her love interest, a young cultivated Brit, soft and over-civilized. And he gives her respect, great emotional range and dignity, more so than the erstwhile heroine, Hetta, who he unmasks. The dark Augustus Melmotte, his daughter Marie. Trollope draws strong women and men and lets them come to their own. The obsessive Roger Carbury. I feel like I know and have meet and dined with these people. He draws even his unlikeable people, Lady Cadbury, with uncanny clarity and sympathy. I believe people call this a satire because it is not a romantic novel. Immensely entertaining. West as a narrator is magnificant.

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male romance novel

Revisado: 05-28-18

I had a hard time keeping the male characters apart, they are pretty indistinguishable from each other, all are mystified by their lives, even though you as a reader would like to give any one of them a dopeslap. And the women! Gawd. Blonde 'beautiful' wasps, with long legs and bosoms, and the dark haired....

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Excellent novel, excellent reading.

Revisado: 08-14-16

Absorbing, complex story. Fully realized characters. Sophisticated insights into human behavior. Well deserved reputation for being a very great novel. The reader is extraordinary. I have listened to it twice through.

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