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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This novel is really well written but what really stands out is the animalsitic passion of the two main characters. (  ) Eyreflife66 | Aug 29, 2009 |  If this had not been a selection of our book group, I would not have finished it. I think it might have been a better read in the original French, but this translation was stilted and repetitive. The characters do not seem real, nor do their actions. Their crime haunts them, but only because they both have unbelievably over-active imaginations. Zola certainly evokes the misery and the hopelessness of their lives, but I was hard-pressed to care. If this is classic literature, you can have it! (  ) Bellettres | Jul 11, 2009 | Competently done, but deliberately grim. I bought it only because I had to teach the play version in a drama class. (  ) antiquary | Jul 1, 2009 | A sordid romance story of a an orphaned girl, adopted by a weathly family, only to become betrothed to her “cousin”. While she doesn’t object to the marriage at first, being shy and quiet, Therese soon falls in love with an artist and together they devise a plan to kill her husband so they can be together. An interesting story that moves quickly along and you could almost feel the characters driven to destruction and a fate of their own making and in the end actually feel satisfied at the outcome and the mutual agreement between them. blondierocket | Jun 28, 2009 | Over 140 years old and Zola's novel still grips with it's stale and dank atmosphere of lust, betrayal and murder. Often copied but never bettered, the characters of Therese, Laurent, Camille and Madame Raquin will haunt your memory. ( ) Chris_V | Jun 6, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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