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what does /lit/ think?

>> No.11114768

I try not to.

>> No.11114773

>>11114761
I don't, therefore I am not.

>> No.11114774

About what?

>> No.11114780

>>11114761
welp thread is over before it even began, my fault for not making the intention of the thread clearer
>>11114774
about the book shown in the picture

>> No.11114798

Entertaining, but not in a way you feel guilty about not reading something more ambitious. The first 1000+ pages book I'd recommend to a new reader

>> No.11114810

>>11114798
I haven't read monte but I have got a copy of Les Miserables which I haven't read. Would you recommend that as a first 1000+

The largest book I have read is The Brothers

>> No.11114819

>>11114810
>I have got a copy of Les Miserables which I haven't read. Would you recommend that as a first 1000+
Definitely, it's not a particularly hard book, but very moving, in a naive romantic way

>> No.11114918

I love it, but I'm also a pleb. Cried hard at some sections.

>> No.11114920

>>11114918
LONDON

>> No.11114921

>>11114920
Don't bully me please, I'm not a woman.

>> No.11114923

I love the space version of this.

>> No.11114929 [DELETED] 

>>11114921
I'm not a woman either as evidence by not crying from ink splotches on wood pulp. Les Miserables is a good book though.

>> No.11114934

>>11114923
Im guessing you're assuming to the anime which is dreck

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>>11114761
ib4 that anon that says OP is an American and please elaborate etc. etc.

>> No.11114956

>>11114949
please elaborate

>> No.11114964

the last 600 pages were much more of a slog than the first 400 unfortunately

>> No.11114970

>>11114964
And I'm just at the page 500 and so far it's been a blast, hopefully it stays that way

>> No.11114996

>>11114964
Slow burn during the middle but I thought it picked up a lot after the Caderousse incident and then stayed great until the end

>> No.11115019

>>11114996
I'm a few chapters ahead of that where he's conversing with Villefort after saving his kid and wife and there's has been zero bad moments

I wonder which were the slow burn moments for you?

>> No.11115067

>>11115019
The part I'm referring to is around 400 pages from the end (of the Penguin 1300 page edition) and signals the start of the 'climax' that pretty much lasts until the end of the book. It was at that point that I didn't want to put it down.
Slow burn isn't a criticism, I just meant that the story slows down a little in the midsection after they leave Rome.
If the chapter you're referring to is called 'Ideology,' that's a great chapter. One of my favourites.

>> No.11115070

read the abridged version. breddy gud

>> No.11115325

Why can't I ever find an unabridged version in used book stores?
>inb4 buy off Amazon, other book sites
Fuck off shills.

>> No.11115346

>>11115070
You missed lesbian romance and, oddly enough, an episode where they smoke weed

>> No.11115381

>>11115325
What do you mean? Penguin/Oxford versions are both unabridge and available at plenty of bookstores

>> No.11115465

>>11115381
>paying $25 for a book when I can go to a used bookstore and buy it for $3