Tom Jones Audiobook

" The lion of the picaresque. "

" Just started. Funny. More later. "

" To be honest, I remember the movie -- and all that eating with great gusto -- more than the book itself. "

" Long read, glad I read it. "

" A fabulous romp through 18th-century England, full of spot-on satire and with an intricate, but rewarding, plot. "

" It took me three months to read this book! That's a record long time for me. I really enjoyed Henry Fielding's comedy and true-to-life caricatures but the plot was very rambly and he is deliberately over verbose - entertaining but difficult to read. "

" One of my favourite reads EVER! Hilarious!! "

" A bit dry in places but a good long novel which has humour, wit and plenty of 18 century history. "

" A wonderous book. Clever, witty, verbose, insightful, long winded, and funny. Its such a project to read and at times it doesn't seem worth it--but it is fun and every 10 years ago it is worth the effort. "

" I read this a long time ago, and remember thinking "is this book EVER going to end?" But I finished it, so it must have been ok. "

" A very early novel, but not a success with me. Fielding constantly interrupts the narrative to talk to the reader. I just got annoyed and gave up. "

" The History of Tom Jones (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding (1966) "

" A LONG read, hard to get through because of its archaic style. Surprisingly similar to Dickens given that it was written a century before (I had a hard time picturing it in the 1700s). "

" It was very very very looooooooong -- one of those english novels where the author was paid per word -- but highly entertaining. I'm not usually a proponent of the abridged version but this is one case where that might work! "

" I-yai-yai! I remember now why I didn't like Fielding!, dear reader. "

" I read this book in college, and didn't like becasue of time constraints. Then, I read it back'n'forth to work on a train, and loved it. The film version follows the novel closely. "

" It can be hard to start, but it's really very funny. "

" Lots of low humor; those people in the eighteenth century really knew how to laugh. It's one of those gloriously long books you hate to see come to an end. "

" Skipped the first chapter of every book after a while, and the debates between Square and Thwackham. Plenty of brawls, and chases, and scandal, and humor to keep the story interesting for all 900 pages, but not gripping. It was very easy to put the book down, even in the middle of a page. "