<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14662.The_Red_and_the_Black" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Red and the Black" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1311645389m/14662.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14662.The_Red_and_the_Black">The Red and the Black</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1481537.Stendhal">Stendhal</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/187199149">3 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Struggled to read this. I found I failed to empathize with any of the characters. The hero and heroines are so shallow - and I realize this is the point of the book - that it was hard to care what happened to them so in that respect Stendhal shoots himself in the foot. It needed at least one sympathetic character to make you care. As it was the final scene in which the hero gets his comepuppance failed to move me at all. By that time frankly I couldn't care less.
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