Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d’Urbervilles (review)

It's been a while!
I am overflowing with thoughts from this book but here is as much of those meandering impressions as I could condense into a video!
Thanks for watching :)

[@ArtTherapyASMR]

Listened to all your videos while working, very refreshing and relaxing to hear you talk about books i otherwise never would have known exist. Hope you keep doing more and longer videos!
Ps. If you rebrand your channel to an ASMR one you'll get tons of views :)

[@toweypat]

This is on my list. I have read "Far From The Madding Crowd", which I liked.

[@LiaAwesomeness]

if jude is your favorite book, you need a hug, a warm blanket and a cup of tea

[@mikejohnson599]

ive read all of hardy as a young man and liked him but as i get much older i find him too depressing to endure but i occasionally enjoy hearing how young ppl such as yourself find him

[@ToReadersItMayConcern]

I've yet to read Thomas Hardy. This is doing a great job so far convincing me to give his work a try. It's great to see more of your thoughts (always intriguing and insightful).

[@booksintheattic]

@@ToReadersItMayConcern thank you kindly :) I absolutely recommend him! I think any reader would benefit from reading at least one novel by him

[@picasso357]

My favourite story! I am so glad you are talking about it

[@michaelgarcia2973]

I had the book but watched it on TV instead

[@old_geeky_Michael]

Thanks Imogen. This isn't the sort of book I'd normally read at all, and I confess it sounds like the depressing nature of the story and the plight of Tess would put me off. But I thought that was a very thorough review, and I especially like that you speak about whether or not the mental state of the characters (and their actions) feels "plausible" and whether the writing itself is actually good. I find that this puts me off books even more than the story; if you get halfway through and think, "no way, that character would never do that" or "wow, this prose is really clunky" then it just breaks the mood, so it's good to know Hardy avoids that. Tempted to try it (I really need to broaden my mind beyond science fiction 😆) but suspect it would defeat me 😆Thanks again for taking the time to post

[@booksintheattic]

@@old_geeky_Michael I feel quite the same way about believable characters and prose too! To me writing style and characterisation are almost always more important and conducive to my enjoyment than just the plot of a novel.

[@phoebem.2586]

Very nice review but i also have to say you just look sooooopretty

[@stardust_memories2260]

Was Hardy an atheist?