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3089583 No.3089583[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Just finished Effi Briest, and I've got to ask.

These novels, these countless dry cookie-cutter novels about Victorian and Edwardian upper-class assholes and their problems...

Why the actual fuck are they regarded so highly? Maybe there's something I'm missing, and maybe my love of postmodernism is coloring my perspective, but from where I'm standing they're almost invariably dull as shit and nigh-indistinguishable from each other.

Austen and the Brontes can stay, though.

>> No.3089591

...Though Austen's technically Regency. Point stands.

>> No.3089612

>These novels, these countless dry cookie-cutter novels about Victorian and Edwardian upper-class assholes and their problems...

yeah

>Why the actual fuck are they regarded so highly?

following

>they're almost invariably dull as shit and nigh-indistinguishable from each other.

i can see that

>Austen and the Brontes can stay, though.

ya blew it

>> No.3089638

>>3089612
Well, no accounting for taste, I suppose. It's also been years since I last read them, not sure what I'd think of them now.