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1. It's not that the author's writing was bad. It's just that I couldn't relate to his seemingly empty characters. Ursula and Gudrun seemed to me to flit through the world, totally consumed with selfishness.
2. The heroine of this book could not earn my sympathy either. She chose her spouse, and then felt bored and imprisoned. So she walked over the doting but weak Charles and into the arms of a stronger lover.
3. I somehow suffered through this book, but the language served as a constant barrier to easy reading. Here is but one tortured sentence, selected at random: "By this however, the Number of People in the whole may be judg'd of; and indeed, I often wondered, that after the prodigious Numbers of People that went away at first, there was yet so great a Multitude left, as it appear'd there was."
4. I can honestly say of this book that it is, at least in the first section, a tale told by an idiot.
5. The tension built and built and built, treading with excruciatingly slow steps, culminating at long last in the final words of a single man. I was poised; I was prepared to be startled with something deeply fulfilling. But oh, the horror, the horror.
6. When I read this book, I wasn't rooting for its protagonist. Rather, I was cheering on Stephen's friend Cranly when he verbally upbraided the hero.
7. It doesn't matter that I didn't like it, because Oprah Winfrey did. She acted in a movie adaptation of the book.
8. This book was written on about a fourth grade reading level, but some professor thought it fit for graduate school. Maybe there just aren't enough short story cycles to choose from these days.
9. I have read and enjoyed three novels by this author. But my "great expectations" were disappointed in ninth grade, when I suffered through a less palatable volume of his work.
10. He was unique. He wrote short sentences. His prose was stark. If you like that, read him. But if you prefer to immerse yourself in the rich complexities of the English language, you might want to avoid this American author.
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