from crashmyparty

It's been a few days since I finished Far From The Madding Crowd but life has been crazy so I haven't had the time to write this review, which is unlike me because I usually make time. Oh well, here we go anyway... My first experience with Hardy came from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, which complete...

from booklove2

Always trying to catch up on those books being sourced for movies/TV (there are dozens on that list right now... that I WANT to read. sigh.) Such a contrast to Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Wouldn't Tess wish she were Bathsheba Everdene? Other than some undisclosed things that happened before the bo...

from Ghost_Boy

Overall I kind of liked this, thought the modern movie I saw was better. The problem is it was hard for me to get use to Thomas Hardy's writing, that's not a bad thing, he's just different than I'm use to and it read like poetry. I would like to read his other books, although it'll take sometime.

from Clara53

I have no idea why this book did not impress me quite as much as Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" or "Mayor of Casterbridge". After all, all the elements of a solid drama were there: a vulnerability of a beautiful woman precariously balanced against her stoicism, the unrequited love, sudden pa...

from rainpebble

Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy When Bathsheba Everdene, a beautiful young woman full of life inherits a farm and moves to the remote country she creates chaos in the hearts of the local men. She finds that her overseer has been stealing from the farm and fires him, determined to run...