Thomas Hardy

In all literature Thomas Hardy is one of the driest most boring pedestrian writers that ever put pen to paper. His characters don’t have sex for example but seem to procreate sort of like lab techs in Petri dishes. I was mystified when he hit the best-seller list in the wake of the movie Tess and now we are faced with yet another opus. The critics like these adaptations but I can’t imagine the books they’re based on as being mainstream.