Madame Bovary

The book looks very simple, but it has a lot to say. it has a lot of symbols that at first you may not get it, but later you will understand. each of the characters other that being a human, resemble a trait or changes in our interaction with world. for example a blind beggar resembles ugly side of life and mirrors the psychological condition of Emma Bovary that exists but she did not like to see, or the seller that makes the Bovary family go on debt is very similar to the issue we all encounter in our modern life when we get a mortgage. The book is trying to inform us that some times the reality of the life is not what you read in books or what you hear in the news.

I know this is an old book, and that it has inspired many great movies and tv-dramas. It was also different for it's time, I wouldn't call it progressive though... This is still a book about a woman that is written by a man, and it shows. It's as if; Poor Charles and Evil woman-Emma. If you can get through all the filler dribble, and the fact that most of the other female characters are incredibly 2-dimensional and stereotypical, while the men seem to be the only ones capable of some rational thought.

It's not feminist, it's not progressive, and it sheds some bad light into women who 'stray' for whatever reason. Aside from that, it fails at entertainment. I read the english translation, so maybe some of the prose got lost, but the flowery dribble of words really made no sense to me--and I read Jane Austen just fine. I had to skip pages of on-and-on of nonsense that didn't add to the story. On and on it goes with no end, it was so painful to try and finish.

This one is a big bore and nothing to find here, it's a classic from women-lit (I wouldn't call it that though) that you can skip.

It's a masterpiece, but I just didn't like it. It reminded me a lot of Anna Karenina, except that I liked Anna Karenina.