Madame Bovary

I hardly think I need to throw my hat into the ring of literary criticism of Flaubert's Madame Bovary---and some of you may even question my having a hat to throw---but I will say that this was a very good book. A surprisingly modern, readable universal story. Emma Bovary's quest for material possessions was almost yuppie-like in it's superficiality (do I really need 15 black skirts?). Her mounting debt made me think humbly of all my bills stuffed behind the radio in the kitchen. Her adultery....phew! Saved! And that's why it's called Madame Bovary and not Madame Gentes.