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If this vampire turns out to be Napoleon I will throw things

Look I don't know anything about Robespierre but HG Parry is pitching him as France's answer to Pitt and Wilberforce, a principled politician with high ideals if only he could have resisted the temptation to achieve his goals through brute force, a tragedy a hair's breadth away from greatness

I fear this book will make me feel things. Man, does she know how to write good antiheroes.

I love books that span several years.

CLARKSON NO

Finished my nightly Weeping Over Eighteenth Century Politicians hour, time to turn out the light

Shedding real tears over Wilberforce and Pitt

"Everyone does things that are wrong, but that wasn't really the point. It was that I wasn't doing anything *right*. ... If the religion of the Church of England was indeed true, then it was the most important thing there was, and it required all of me. I tried not to believe this, and it was impossible, and so I believed it, and that was harder still."

This is the most surreal experience I've ever had reading a book because half of it is stuff I did in OUTREMER and another half of it is stuff I did in MISS SHARP'S MONSTERS

I've had Williams Pitt and Wondered for less than 20 pages and if anything happens to them I'll kill everyone in the room and then myself