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Yep, good stuff.
One of the betters imo.
In a Glock it is good ammo as is most name brand SD or carry ammo, they love it all. The only problem I ever had with Corbon was with a Bersa .380, it didn't want to extract it reliably.
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CORBON is excellent ammo, relatively speaking. But, for self defense use, different calibers have different "best ammo brands". If you Google FBI ballistic tests and "most effective law enforcement ammo" you'll see how a given brand/weight have a percentage of effectiveness. According to current stats, Winchester Ranger T series and Federal have the best "one shot effectiveness" rating in .45 cal. Corbon is rated high in their DPX and standard Corbon ammo. For .40 caliber ammo, Federal and Corbon are at the top. The top rated law enforcement ammo used in the US is Federal, Winchester, and Speer. Lesson learned is that one brand may be best in one caliber but not in ALL calibers. Hornady and Corbon have some lines of ammo specifically designed to prevent over penetration. There's a trade off with them in terms of use into heavy clothing. It'll pay for you to do your homework and select an ammo brand that's specifically designed for the use you need.


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Before you downvote me as just another "complaining about Purple side without any evidence" thread, please note that this is a project I intend to spend a lot of time on, and there is a ton of evidence within!
For a long, long time people have complained that Purple side has it rough. Harder to control Dragon, Baron, buffs, gank, all sorts of things. Riot has addressed this by stating they place higher ELO players on Purple side to off-set the fact that Purple side, in general, loses more. But does this really help? Being an avid viewer of scarra's stream, and seeing as he is a top-50 ELO player I decided to research this myself! I wasn't for sure which game to post this on, but after 11 games I feel I have the right sample group to give this to the general public for viewing, and then see how it progresses from there (as often as scarra streams, of course). Below is a Google Document detailing the games (updated daily) that scarra has played. Within it are the players on both sides, their chamoions, k/a/d, as well as their creep score. On the right-hand side you will also find the Win percentages of both side, and how often scarra is placed on both sides, as well as some thoughts and opinions of my own. The main purpose of this spreadsheet is first and foremost to prove if there is or is not a clear disadvantage for being Purple side. Without a doubt I can safely say that Blue side in the Top-50 ELO bracket wins a large majority of the time. Even on comps where scarra's Blue team should have lost, just by being Blue it allowed them to push back and win with a solid teamfight. There are of course countless variables as to why Blue has it better than Purple, and this document is not trying to address any of those variables; it simply gives the hard numbers that shows the fact that Blue wins the majority of the time, and that it is unfair for teams competing for cash prizes to be forced on Purple side. Thanks for all the feedback and any helpful tips the community can give! With every update (each day scarra streams), I will bump the thread for viewing pleasure assuming it falls into the depths of page 2. <3 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...UJWQXE0b25EclE |
It can be disputed that this is in fact valid, but i still agree with you. Although i think that each side of the map provides teams with different advantages, and the teams just have to recognize which advantages they have. Blue team is easier to gank bottom when they are pushed to turret than purple team, but purple team has no way to safely ward when they are being pushed to their turret. By this i mean that purple team is harder to gank when they are pushed to turret because the ganker has to run through the commonly warded dragon area. When the blue team is pushed to their turret the enemy jungle can walk through blue team's jungle and gank from behind.
Take top lane for instance. When blue team is pushed on top they have to ward at least 2 places to be safe from the majority of ganks. When purple team is pushed they really only need to ward at the ramp up to blue, and middle should be warding on the inside of red entrance to stop counter-jungling. So purple top can push and still maintain being safe while doing it. Blue has to ward the enemy tri-bush as well as near baron. I think that the purple/blue side can be balanced a little more to not have the objectives being held easier by certain teams, but i think that the better team will use the advantages that each side comes with to best the enemy team. I think the game is constantly being developed and will never reach a perfect status, and i don't think it should. Games are meant to be constantly improved upon based on what the fan-base wants. TL;DR Both sides have equal advantages that they can use to beat the enemy team. The better team will come out on top no matter what. CLG proved this by besting TSM, while being on the purple team and suffering a devestating 3 for none which cost then 2 turrets before 20 minutes in. They turned it into a 2 for none into a turret and a quick baron. They simply out-played the enemy team, and that's what it ultimately comes down to. |
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How is it harder to control dragon? Aside from the purple side having to invest in one more ward to ward tri, they have a better escape route that goes straight back onto their side. It all comes down to the better smiter. Not to mention on purple side its insanely easy to gank top early, coming from tri and or coming through lane, and only one ward spot is needed to be placed. In bot lane on purple all the support has to learn how to do is wall ward into the river bush a pink ward, so a jungler like lee sin or jarvan can sneak into the river bush. I find that there are even fields for this argument. Even if you did argue that blue side has dragon control I'd say that purple has better baron control. Which you could then argue that dragon creates earlier game advantages, but the baron is literally game changing late. So anyone who says that purple has it rough has some arguments, its all in the pick screen and the skill of the players.
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Programming by demonstration (PBD) enables users to construct programs to automate repetitive tasks without writing a line of code. The key idea in PBD is to generalize from the user's demonstration of the program on a concrete example to a robust program that will work in new situations. Previous approaches to PBD have employed heuristic, domain-specific algorithms to generalize from a small number of examples. In this thesis, we formalize programming by demonstration as a machine learning problem: given the changes in the application state that result from the user's demonstrated actions, learn the sequence of instructions that map from one application state to the next. We propose a domain-independent machine learning approach to PBD that is capable of learning useful programs from a small number of examples. This approach addresses two difficult questions: (1) How do we construct the search space of possible program statements? (2) How do we search this large space efficiently? Our solution is based on the concept of version space algebra. Mitchell [55] formalized concept learning as a search through a version space of hypotheses consistent with the examples. Concept learning may be thought of as learning functions that map from an instance to a binary classification. In this work, we extend version spaces to apply to complex functions: functions that map from one complex object to another. We then present version space algebra, a means for combining several small spaces in order to construct complex version s...


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Gross, Daniel (1875 - 1945)
Genre: Poetry
Theologian and poet Daniel Irving Gross was born in Orland, ME. He attended University of Colorado (1898-99), Bowdoin College (1902), Harvard Law School (1902-1904), graduated from Andover theological Seminary in 1908 and was ordained the same year.
Selected Bibliography
- On the Bay: And Other Poems (1924)
- Peace I Find in Contemplation: Poems (1930)


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"The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me." - Lady M. W. Montague |
Title Page
Executive Summary ( Opportunity, required Investment, payback, why you will succeed, and competitive advantage)
This 2-3 page summary or abstract should present a description of the product/service/idea/image/event/place/etc. (herein referred to as "product/service"), its target market and its need within that market. The summary also should present an overview of the main points of the plan, i.e., the marketing mix and the sales and profits for the first two years.
The relationship between the organization's mission, objectives, strategy, and the marketing plan should be clearly expressed.
The summary should emphasize an action orientation.
Table of Contents (Please center on the page and include page numbers i, ii, etc.)
Introduction (Include a 1-page brief statement of background information, issues, and purpose of the plan.)
Situational Analysis (This section includes the macro and micro environments as well as the SWOT analysis.)
Macro and micro environment (Business conditions, economic conditions, state of technology, demand trends, laws, etc.)
Describe any Important aspects of the company's history.
Describe the company's current products or services.
What are their sales in dollars?
What is their share of the market?
How do they compare to the competition?
Describe important external conditions and/or trends impacting the industry: Social, technological, economic, legal/regulatory, competitive, and institutional.
Is the size of the market of the product category increasing or decreasing and how fast?
Why has the market remained stable or changed?
Do these conditions create opportunities for the product/service?
Do these conditions pose threats to the product/service?
SWOT analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (Explain how you will handle each.)
This section requires the manager to look ahead and visualize the major threats and opportunities facing the product. The purpose is to counter the managers' tendency to focus on current problems and fail to anticipate important developments that can have a significant impact on the firm. Managers should list as many threats and opportunities as they can imagine. Suppose the manager at a cigarette company comes up with the following list:
The U.S. Surgeon General is asking Congress to pass a law requiring that every cigarette band include a skull and crossbones on the front of the package and the warning: "Scientific evidence shows that daily smoking shortens a person's life by an average of seven years."
An increasing number of public places are prohibiting smoking or are setting up separate sections for smokers and nonsmokers.
A new insect is attacking tobacco-growing areas, leading to the possibility of smaller crops in the future and larger price increases if some means cannot be found to control it.
The company's research lab is on the verge of finding a way to turn lettuce into benign tobacco. If successful, the new tobacco will be enjoyable and harmless.
Cigarette smoking is rapidly increasing in foreign markets, especially in developing nations.
Each item has implications for the cigarette business. The first three are threats. Not all threats warrant the same attention or concern. The manager should assess each threat according to its potential severity and its probability of occurrence. The results of assessing the three threats listed above are shown below. All three are high in potential severity, and two have a high probability of occurring.
Threats and opportunities. Create a grid to graphically portray the potential severity/attractiveness of the threats and opportunities.
"We want our children to become warm, decent human beings who reach out generously to those in need. We hope they find values and ideals to give their lives purpose so they contribute to the world and make it a better place because they have lived in it. Intelligence, success, and high achievement are worthy goals, but they mean nothing if our children are not basically kind and loving people." - Neil Kurshan |
Marketing Objectives and Goals (Include when you will reach them. In creating a marketing plan for yourself, include your goals and plan for achieving those goals in this section.)
What are the corporate marketing objectives of the product/service under evaluation?
What are the specific marketing objectives of the product/service under evaluation?
Are the objectives of the marketing plan compatible with the overall marketing objectives of the company and/or business unit?
Include marketing and financial objectives.
Include a pro forma income statement and balance sheet as appropriate. If confidentiality is an issue, please use percentages.
Marketing Strategy (Include items such as nitching, positioning, entry timing, etc. Show how your strategy takes advantage of your competitive advantage.)
Who are the competitors and/or what are the product substitutes for the product?
Does the organization have an obvious competitive advantage? If yes, what is it? Consider brand names, service, price, distribution, technology, personnel.
Provide a complete competitive analysis for the product/service. This should include the following:
Major competitors' strengths and weaknesses
Brand positioning and competitive advantage
Market share
Does the product/service have a competitive advantage? If yes, explain your competitive strategy.
How will the product or service be positioned?
"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action." - Václav Havel, Czechoslovakian playwright, president |
Action or Tactical Plan
Target Market (Demographics, psychographics, geographics, lifestyle, and any other segmentation used)
Describe the firm's possible market segments.
What are the characteristics of each of the market segments? (Age, geography, income, lifestyles, etc.)
Assess the potential of each market segment.
Describe the chosen target market(s).
Why was this target market selected?
How does the product or service meet the needs of the target market?
Describe the purchase decision behavior of the target market(s), i.e., who, what, where, why, when, and how.
What is the general sales forecast for the target market of the product/service?)
Marketing Tactics (The 4 p's.)
What is the total product concept for this good or service? Describe the product/service in terms of features and benefits.
Will it satisfy consumers' needs? How will the consumer use the product? Will consumers purchase the product?
How does the product differ from that of the competition?
Describe the package (size, color, label, etc.) and its benefits.
Are any product modifications expected as the product moves through the product life cycle?
Are any warranties or guarantees offered?
What is the test marketing process for the product/service?
What is the overall pricing policy for the organization?
What are the organization's pricing objectives?
What is the pricing structure for this product or service? (Include pricing method, approach, and strategy.)
How does the pricing structure for the product or service compare to that of the competition?
What is the target market's evaluation of price and its ability to purchase? Will there be significant demand at this price? What is the estimated effect of lowering or raising the price of the product or service?
What is the competition's likely reaction to the pricing strategy for the product or service at this price level?
What (if any) price promotions (sales, discounts, allowances, etc.) will be used during the year?
What is the current distribution strategy?
How effective are the current distribution channels? Will these same channels be used for the new product/service? Why?
What (if any) new distribution channels should be added to accommodate the new product/service?
Does the competition use any distribution channels not presently being used by the planning organization?
What (if any) expected future developments could affect how, what, when, or where consumers will purchase this product/service?
Marketing Communications
What are the communication objectives for the organization's product or service?
What is the overall promotional strategy for the organization? Describe this in terms of structure, tasks, and strategy (push/pull).
How much money is allocated for the promotional budget? How will it be divided?
What are the copy and media strategies for this product or service? How does the advertising differ from that of any competitor?
What is the role of personal selling in the promotional mix? What is the ratio of advertising spending to personal selling spending? Does this ratio reflect the importance given to personal selling in the overall promotional strategy?
What is the role of sales promotion? What is the ratio of advertising expenditures to sales promotion expenditures? Does this ratio reflect the importance given to sales promotion in the overall promotional strategy?
What type of sales promotion will be used?
What are the objectives of the public relations program?
Proposed (realistic) marketing budget for implementation of marketing plan. Include details, such as estimated sales, media costs, etc.
Include a schedule/chart/timeline of execution for each element of the action plan, i.e., project development schedules.
Who will do each task, that is, who has responsibility?
Control and Evaluation
Include methods for measuring actual performance versus planned objectives.
Include illustration(s) of measurement of progress during the campaign, and upon its completion.
Organization chart for project
For the product or service being planned for, develop a timeline that will explain:
What is to be accomplished and how much will it cost?
Who will do it?
When will it be done?
How will results be measured? Consider sales analysis, market share analysis, and cost analysis, etc. What information is needed for the comparison of actual and planned results?
Who will be responsible for monitoring and controlling the marketing plan? Who is accountable for significant deviations from the plan?
Develop a pro forma statement for the first two years of sales and detail the income and expenses in both quantitative and qualitative format.
Breakeven chart
Cash flow
Profit and loss statement
Balance sheets
Contingency plans
Other relevant information
Summary (Include a 1/2 to 1 page summary of the tactical plan and conclusions while emphasizing competitive advantage.)
Appendices/Exhibits (Use titles and cite references as appropriate. Include a copy of the PPT slides. Include any other tables, graphs, exhibits, complicated information or numbers, sample ads or brochures, etc.)
Reference/Bibliography (Use complete citations and indicate in the paper where each is used. Check the library website for how to cite references.)
"Thinking well is wise; planning well wiser; doing well wisest and best of all." - Persian Proverb |
Anderson and Vincze (2005), Strategic Marketing Management, Houghton Mifflin.
Subhash, C. Jain, Marketing Planning Strategy, 4th Edition, Cincinnati, Ohio: South- Western Publishing Company, 2004.
William A. Cohen, The Marketing Plan, New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 2005.
Kotler, Principles of Marketing, 3rd ed., Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2003.
The marketing plan outline included in this appendix is an adaptation of the marketing plan exercise used by Professor Anne M. Devine, Alverno College, Business and Management Division, 3401 S. 39th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53234-3922.
"The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through." - Harry A. Overstreet |
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Want to read the classics, start with Tess,
By neoninfusion (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Paperback)
What is the point of reading classic literature if all you are going to do is analyse it? What a waste. Hardy, Austen et al would be turning in their graves if they knew that their work would be treated in this way by self-proclaimed experts. Classic novels are to be enjoyed; they are written for the satisfaction of all readers, not just to massage the egos of academics.
Yes, I've studied classic literature, and it isn't the genre I am typically interested in. However, "Tess of the d'urbervilles" is the novel that has inspired me to give this genre another try. I found it to be incredibly moving; dismissing the idea that it was poorly written. I've found English literature too stifled by its own airs and graces, but this is not the case with Thomas Hardy. He paints a picture of great hope in a way that allows us to empathise (unlike some of his contemporaries) with the characters of a different era. I recommend anyone who wants to start reading classic English literature to begin with "Tess of the d'urbervilles". You will find it an easily accessible read. It is beautiful, hopeful and tragic.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect for a Book Club,
This review is from: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Paperback)
Some great discussions come out of this book. Thomas Hardy has a very distinct style, and uses the environment essentially as another character, so it may be beneficial to at least have some familiarity with England before reading. No one can read this book without having strong opinions about the characters, especially the two main men. This is one of the standout pieces of literature of its time and is well worth the read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Paperback)
I had to write a review just to bring up a rating that was unfairly knocked down by a handful of obtuse reviewers. I wasn't an English lit major like some of these reviewers, but I have read upwards of 10,000 books in my life -with a concentration on literature- and have to say that the descriptive writing in "Tess of the D'Ubervilles" is the most beautiful and poetic I have yet encountered. It is not the most exciting, nor the most stunningly transformative(that honour goes to "Altas Shrugged") book, but the construction and execution is exquisite.
The book is in fact slowly paced - so much so in the first couple of chapters that I was rebuffed the first time I started reading it. However, a little patience will grant you entry into the gorgeous spell Hardy invokes. Yes, it is a "victorian" novel, but the sublimity of the writing and of the plot's tragedy emancipates it from the staidness of the genre. The upshot is that you shouldn't turn to this book if you want a fast paced thriller or "clever" writing. Read it if you want to cultivate your awareness of exceptional beauty; this book is for the cultured connoisseur, not needy readers.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Somber rustic majesty,
By A.J. (Maryland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Paperback)
In a certain light, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" might be seen as a Cinderella story horribly disfigured by a tragic twist. When we first meet the heroine, Tess Durbeyfield, as a poor, hardworking farm girl who has to take care of her five younger siblings and fulfill the responsibilities abandoned by her inebriated father, she seems like a girl destined for greater things: a brilliant career in a more stimulating occupation, a blissful marriage to a wonderful man. But Hardy likes to illustrate fate's capacity for cruelty, and Tess is merely an innocent woman who is seemingly punished for her innocence.
The name Durbeyfield is a vulgarization of d'Urberville, a family with a rich history descended from Norman knights and wealthy landowners, but various misfortunes have reduced the lineage to the commoners who presently inhabit the impoverished Durbeyfield household. (We learn later in the novel that the Durbeyfields are not the only local family to have suffered this appellative fall from grace.) Although the d'Urberville nobility is defunct, in the near past an enterprising businessman named Stoke sought to increase the prestige of his own family by appropriating a distinguished name from the county annals, and d'Urberville is the one he chose. Thus when Tess, to aid her family's finances after an unfortunate accident deprives them of their income, takes a job tending the fowl at the nearby d'Urberville estate, she mistakenly believes she is working for her relations. This ostensibly minor detail is really the basis of the irony which drives the novel. Had Mr. Stoke been honest and not assumed the name of the Durbeyfields' ancestors, Tess would not have been likely to meet the lecherous, skulking Alec d'Urberville, who rapes her after she rebuffs his attempted seduction and impregnates her with a baby that dies in infancy. Of course Hardy, evading the risk of censorship, is decorous enough to suggest in the subtlest manner possible that the rape happened rather than describe it explicitly, but Alec's immoral behavior is clearly implied. Mortified, heartbroken, Tess then goes to work as a milkmaid at a dairy farm where she and a young man named Angel Clare, the heartthrob of several of the farm girls, fall in love. Angel has defied his father, a vicar, by spurning a career in the clergy for agriculture and marriage with a middle class girl for Tess. He scoffs at his parents' snobbery, but after marrying Tess, he reveals a disturbing hypocrisy when she confesses to him the vicious treatment she had received from Alec and its consequences. Angel's reaction is far from the gentle sympathy one would expect from the magnanimous personality he projects; he is disgusted that she has been robbed of her purity and draws a strange parallel between her violation and the fall of her family's ancestral prestige. He rejects her, they separate, and once again she is mortified, heartbroken, and looking for a job. Tess is destined to rencounter both Angel and Alec before the end of the novel, and the changes to their characters not only advance the plot in unexpected ways but further emphasize Hardy's utilization of irony. The starkly contrasted images of the novel's penultimate scene at Stonehenge and the last scene, which takes place outside a prison where a black flag flies announcing an execution, raise the question of whether even Hardy knew when he started exactly how this somber story would end. The novel contains several recurring Hardy elements. Like most of his major work, it takes place in the southwestern part of England he calls Wessex, this time in the fertile Blackmoor Vale, and his evocation of the scenery sets the stage beautifully. Tess's co-workers at the dairy farm are a realistically cheerful lot and provide the continuum of humanity that such a story needs as a reprieve for its tragic mood. An interesting touch which shows that Hardy is not above recycling his own motifs is the similarity between the death of the Durbeyfield horse (a definite foreshadowing for Tess) and the tumbling sheep in "Far from the Madding Crowd," in that both incidents cause their respective protagonists to take distant jobs with fateful results. The incentive to read Hardy lies in his ability to put language at the service of one of the greatest functions of literature: to express the deepest desires and emotions of mankind.
1.0 out of 5 stars
mind-numbing, terrible writing,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Paperback)
Having a degree in English Lit., it seems sinful for me to accuse Thomas Hardy of being a terrible writer, but there it is. Any writer today submitting a manuscript like this would have it rejected out of hand. This is not a book for an audience seeking a good, fast-paced story that speaks for itself. If you read this book, you will have to interpret every word, description, and action, try to guess what universal message the author is attempting to convey and what the characters are thinking and feeling at any given time. In short, the kind of book that college English professors love, and try to emulate, and remain college English professors because they will never get such a thing published.
First of all, character development is not only lacking, it is absent altogether. It might be assumed that the book's title character, at least, would be strongly drawn, someone we could sympathize with, empathize with, or relate to in some way. Not the case. While Hardy expounds upon Tess' physical appearance ad nauseum throughout, never did I gain any real insight into her thoughts and feelings, her motivation. Maybe the insight is hidden in these endless physical descriptions or her inane actions, but frankly, if I'm reading for pleasure I don't want to take the time to search. Sorry. And it follows that if Hardy failed in his title character, forget about all the others. Secondly, his wordiness is irritating. One paragraph of half-way interesting action is followed by a full page of useless description and genuflecting. Perhaps essential to hidden meanings and motives and social commentary, but again, I'm not taking the time to search. I found myself skipping over these, the result being my finishing the book in two evenings. Conversely, Hardy seems to gloss over the most important event in the book, cloaking it in overly subtle tones. Granted, this was written during the sexually-repressed Victorian Era, for an audience with "delicate sensibilites", but come on. Something as traumatic and life-shattering as rape, in fact the event that is supposed to drive the entire novel, deserves more than an allusion to medieval knights taking advantage of peasant girls. Not that I want graphic details, on the contrary. But please, give me a break; even if her society deems she take it as a matter of course, let us see, clearly, her inward rage, hurt, bafflement at what has happened to her. Something. Anything. Make her human, in other words. If you really must read this, a synopsis would be enough. The novel's idea is a good one, and could have probably been done brilliantly by someone else. Hardy fails it miserably.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Wake me up,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Paperback)
A great windbag of a novel, Hardy seems to think that not only does a grassy meadow take half a chapter to describe, he thinks that everyone else agrees with him. Please. Not the largest complaint I have, but surely the first, is that Hardy's style is like looking up looking up "stone pillar" in a thesaurus, then two others, and then writing down every single synonym. It takes pages for him to describe a dairy farm, and at some point you wonder if he's introducing the farm as a character, it gets so much time.
Not that he seems to spend that much time on his characters; they are created with little that interests, and contain less development that a homeless shelter under President Bush. Tess is described, at great length, and quite often, as a beautiful woman. Okay, so what? Her personality is so weak I wonder if he even thought about what she would do in a situation, or just had her do whatever the other characters wanted her to do, until the very end, when she makes an out of character action that is supposed to be shocking, but is more perplexing; the character described in the rest of the book wouldn't do that, and there is nothing to indicate why she has a sudden change of being. Angel is built up as the "perfect prince in shining armor" until he finds out about Tess's secret, when he suddenly acts like a selfish and snotty child that is the very opposite of what he has been in the rest of the book. Then he switches back at the end, with little thought as to why by Hardy, at least not much that is apparent in the book. Let's see, boring writing style and poorly done characters, what else is there? Ah, plot. The only way to describe plot is that it made the description seem riveting and his characters thought out. He's spend the time to talk about Tess getting a job, then the next chapter she is suddenly running away from it; I felt robbed of the time spent in the build up, and knowing more in detail of what happened in the intervening time from when she got the job to when she quit would have helped with her character. And when you think there is no need for detail, Hardy's got more than enough. He spends ages talking about Tess and Angel's time together at the dairy farm, but none of their actions change the way they feel about each other. He could have cut our some of their horse riding, and no one would complain. In short, Hardy's the kind of writer who is analogous to a storyteller that likes the sound of his voice; just because he can say something, he does. And in his endless drivel, what might be interesting is skipper over. This guy could have used and editor. When it first came out, this book was ill received, and I see no reason for anything to have changed since.
5.0 out of 5 stars
certainly one of the greatest novels ever written,
By mulcahey (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Paperback)
I was looking for another edition of TESS and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the "average customer rating" was only three stars. So I'm taking a moment to correct the balance.
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES must be as close to a perfect novel as anyone has written in English. It is a genuine tragedy with a girl/woman as tragic hero. It is about life on earth in a way that transcends mere sociology. It has the grandeur of Milton but concerns itself with the lives of mortal beings on earth, as much with sex as with dirt, blood, milk, dung, animal and vegetative energies. It concerns itself with only essential things the way the Bible does. It is almost a dark rendering of the Beatitudes. The story is built with such care and such genius that every incident, every paragraph, reverberates throughout the whole structure. Surely Hardy had an angel on his shoulder when he conceived and composed this work. Yet it was considered so immoral in its time that he had to bowdlerize his own creation in order to get it published, at first. Victorian readers were not prepared for the truth of the lives of ordinary women, or for a great many truths about themselves that Hardy presents. The use of British history as a hall of mirrors and the jawdropping detail of the landscape of "Wessex" make it the Great English Novel in the way we sometimes refer to MOBY DICK as the Great American Novel, though the works don't otherwise bear comparison. Melville's great white whale is a far punier creation. Hardy's style is like no one else's. It is not snappy, as Dickens can be. It is not fluid and elegant, like George Eliot's. It can feel labored and awkward and more archaic than either. It has no journalistic flavor, but is painfully pure and deliberate and dense, echoing Homer or the language of the Old Testament rather than anything we think of as "modern." Don't start with TESS but with FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, another very beautiful book, where Hardy is at his loosest and wittiest. Once you have the key to his style, then pick up a good edition of TESS with notes, e.g. Penguin, so you get the full richness of all the literary allusions. Hardy's lowly shepherds and farmhands move and breathe in a very ancient literary atmosphere. The effect is not pretentious but timeless. There is wisdom, poetry and majesty here. Tess stumbling through the dark and taking her last rest at Stonehenge will send chills up your spine like no other reading experience. I wonder if anyone can know why there are novels, why we care about them, or what they are capable of, without reading this one.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Awful...just plain awful!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Mass Market Paperback)
Okay...I had to read this book as summer reading...I must say I was actually looking foward to reading it...I thought it would be good...I thought wrong. Tess is one of the most awful books I have ever read...Tess is a sap with no spine and an insult to all women. I understand this book was written in an era when women were not strong but still...couldn't Hardy have given Tess some common sense?? This book put me to sleep more than once with its long descriptions of the same valley...and can anything else happen to Tess at the end of this novel? I think every bad thing that could happen to a woman happened to Tess...a bit melodramatic, maybe? I don't know how this book became a classic...was it classic for its ability to put somebody to sleep...or how about sending someone into a depression or fits of anger because Tess is a moron? If you want to read classics read Crime and Punishment or even Madame Bovary...I also had to read those this summer and I actually enjoyed them...so don't go saying to yourself the only reason I don't like this book is because I was forced to read it...I was forced to read those other books and I liked them. In short, I pity anybody who has to read this book...and I don't know how anybody in their right minds could have given this book 5 stars.
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the Most Extraordinary Novels Ever,
This review is from: Penguin Classics Tess Of The Durbervilles (Mass Market Paperback)
Despite its seemingly needless tragedy, its persistently downbeat tone, and its relentlessly persecuted heroine, Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," is without doubt one of the greatest novels I have ever read. And I have read a few. Tess is the only truly well-developed character in the novel, which, coupled with the fact that Hardy renders the landscape of Wessex as to make it a character itself, gives one the sense of a real struggle between humanity and nature. This, for me, is one of the great themes of the novel - the tension between nature and the artifices with which we fill our relations with other people. The beauty of Hardy's pastoral setting is never idyllic - Hardy keeps us always aware that human society, with its false moral standards and technological advancements, is ever encroaching upon the already vanished past.
As the novel begins, Tess Durbeyfield's irresponsible wastrel of a father is casually and jokingly informed by the local minister that he is a descendant of a long-degenerated and disenfranchised noble family, the D'Urbervilles, whose influence stretches back to the Norman invasion. This simple, careless act, nothing more than a name, wreaks such havoc upon everyone in the novel, that I'm actually having a hard time right now even looking at the title - the name itself, now having read the novel, is such a powerful condemnation of status, of privilege, of reputation, of all the injustices of English society from the eighteenth century through the time of this novel, almost the dawn of the twentieth. Sent by her nearly indigent parents, whose heads have swelled with the possibilities of lineage, Tess leaves her home in Marlott, going to claim kinship with the last apparently wealthy D'Urberville, in the village of Trantridge. There she meets Alec D'Urberville, who seduces her. The rest of this powerful novel shows Tess Durbeyfield attempting to piece together a reputable life out of a situation and a condition in which respectability is fundamentally denied her. "Tess" is a novel steeped, perhaps even choked, with tradition - history, literature, theology, philosphy, economics - Hardy's frame of reference calls all of these to account through the course of the novel. Tess, ostensibly a simple country girl, is forced to reckon with the accumulated weight of human knowledge and thought, no small burden for a girl with only the kind of basic education available in a small rural town. As readers, we are asked to measure the applicability, the efficacy, of the Bible next to Shakespeare, next to Greek mythology next to art - to determine if any of these are capable of fathoming what it means to be human, to endure the myriad experiences of human life, both good and ill. In her dealings with the changeable Alec D'Urberville, the almost-modern Angel Clare, the farm-hands Izz Huett and Marian, her poor, practically minded mother, Joan, Tess experiences so much of life, mostly of the harshest kind. For me, this is the key facet of the novel. Tess endures. Despite all of her hardships, which are hard indeed, and in the face of the worst kinds of scrutiny and deprecation, both from others and from herself, Tess exhibits a kind of composure, threshold for pain, and strength that are all quite amazing. Daniel Defoe's eighteenth-century "Moll Flanders" is the first character that immediately comes to mind, just in terms of comparable pluck in the face of such overweaning odds. Though many may disagree with me, I think that Tess, more than simply being the protagonist of the novel, is a real heroine. She is so insistently admirable, so determined to live despite all the forces and pressures arrayed against her from the very outset of the novel, when as a 15 year old girl, she is asked to restore the family's fortunes - it is really just astounding. I regret that I had never read "Tess" before, but I am supremely glad that I have had the chance to do so now. A novel cannot get a higher recommendation from me.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Grim, but beautiful,
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This review is from: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Mass Market Paperback)
This is possibly the saddest novel I have ever read. I have been thinking about it ever since I finished it. Few novels have evoked so much emotion in me. Tess makes me feel sad, frustrated, and angry.
Tess of the Durbervilles is the story of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of poor, alcoholic parents who learn that they are of a noble bloodline and send Tess off to work for her noble "cousin" Alec Durberville. While there, Alec rapes Tess and she has his illegitimate baby. This event ruins Tess's life. She is no longer pure, and virginal, and therefore brings shame upon her true love Angel Clare when her past is revealed. It is hard to believe, in this day and age, that Tess is shamed and ostracized because she was the victim of a horrible crime. Hardy's novel is a powerful statement on the questionable morality of Victorian society. Tess, who is a heroic, brave, caring, selfless woman, is not worthy of Angel because she is somehow impure due to the rape. Angel, who has lived with a woman out of wedlock and is clearly not a virgin himself, feels justified in punishing Tess when he learns of her past. The writing is beautiful, but the story tragic. It will stay with you a long time. |
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