MADAME BOVARY (Gustave Flaubert) - July 23/13

Blaaaargh! This is definitely right down there with Anna Karenina and Jane Eyre as far as unreadable old books go. It's really quite astonishing how boring this stupid thing is. If you took all the interesting stuff and updated the flowery language, you might have a decent 20-page short story. But as it is, it's suffused with SO much stuff that nobody cares about, that it becomes impossible not to glaze over entire passages. My god, I was so bored reading this debacle of a book. no stars out of ****