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About to start this behemoth, what should I expect?

>> No.5774041

>>5773992
Bourgeois shit.

It's actually really good

>> No.5774048

>>5774041
I started it a few weeks ago but just found it really dense to begin with, although my lecturer said that it begins to open up a few chapters in.

How is it good btw?

>> No.5774057

>>5774048
On a scale made of oranges, from echelon to barbed wire, I'd give it a solid ypsilon.

>> No.5774069

>>5774057
Didn't ask that, was wondering what makes it good? Characters, narrative etc.

>> No.5774077

>>5774069
Aren't you reading it yourself? Why don't you find out on your own?

I really hate you helpless idiots.

>> No.5774090

>>5773992
A thoughtful look into the practical implications of a third person omniscient narrator, especially when considering the impossibility of such a view outside of literature.

>> No.5774100

>>5774077

TELL ME WHAT TO THINK AND FEEL

>> No.5774107

>>5773992
expect top tier prose

>> No.5774112
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5774112

>tfw my lifes work is kinda shitty

>> No.5774120

Every character is yin and yang, some good , little bad, vice versa

>> No.5774147

>>5773992
Snarky, insightful and more worldwise than Austen. About halfway between Austen and J.K.Jerome.

>> No.5774177

>>5774057
That's a good ranking. I give it Prévert/10.