I didn’t believe in Bathsheba the farmer. This time round I didn’t hate it – in fact, despite the following, I enjoyed most of it quite a lot – but I still disliked all the characters and wasn’t too keen on Hardy himself! Why I disliked Bathsheba… I have to start by saying that I was forced to read this book in school and analyse it to death and, as I’ve remarked before about other classics, this always had a tendency to make me hate books I would otherwise probably have loved. Given that every other man she’d picked had ended up dead or worse, one can only assume the final man is as stupid as Bathsheba, so they’ll probably live happily ever after. The sorry tale of an idiot girl who keeps choosing the wrong man until finally there’s only one left, so she takes him. So if you haven’t read the book and intend to some day, please don’t read this. This is not a review – it is my personal reaction to the characters in the book and is spoiler-filled from start to end.
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