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Full disclosure I just started the book, but when page 2 described the main character at that point as just under 6 feet tall and just over 130 lbs while pregnant, I was already turned off. Then it just got less believable from there. I'm on approx p
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"I don't think I'm going to finish this book. I was turned off by page 2, when the first notable character was described as almost 6 feet tall, just over 130 lbs, and pregnant, and it just got less believable from there. I'm not talking about the suspension of belief parts either. This is reading like the author has never met a real woman or talked to an actual toddler in his life." — Jun 12, 2024 06:13AM
"I don't think I'm going to finish this book. I was turned off by page 2, when the first notable character was described as almost 6 feet tall, just over 130 lbs, and pregnant, and it just got less believable from there. I'm not talking about the suspension of belief parts either. This is reading like the author has never met a real woman or talked to an actual toddler in his life." — Jun 12, 2024 06:13AM
“Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.”
― Candide
― Candide
“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Candide
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Candide
“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”
― Candide
― Candide
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
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