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Bleh. Anyone comparing this to Howl's Moving Castle should srsly get their head examined. Currently (at Ch. 9/24% in) looks like this is going to be a DNF and two-stars. Specific complaints: characters so exceptionally under-developed that it's amazi
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"Woof. Ch. 9 is where this mess TRULY falls apart. WHO GREEN LIT THIS SLOP 🤯 A book full of unlikable characters, inasmuch as characters so flat and insipid can manage to be unlikable." — Aug 26, 2026 11:29AM
"Woof. Ch. 9 is where this mess TRULY falls apart. WHO GREEN LIT THIS SLOP 🤯 A book full of unlikable characters, inasmuch as characters so flat and insipid can manage to be unlikable." — Aug 26, 2026 11:29AM
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The enormity of this task sometimes makes me feel a little dizzy, but as a scientist and an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the Splendours of the World.
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
“..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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