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c'est trop trop bien

I wonder if we're gonna get an in-text explanation for the fact that like half the population of Hell they meet is a former faculty or student at Cambridge like the Doctor when he always lands on Earth in London

there's a paragraph on this page that is basically "Have you seen this hat? It's weird, I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in"

"inexistent healthcare" in Cambridge??? listen you American keep this nonsense on the other side of the pond and pay the annoying immigration health surcharge like the rest of us

coincidentally I was reading linguistics research on game theory this very week, which has given me what I needed to understand what was happening before it was infodumped on me

I feel like if you info dump on me like these last two pages I shouldn't have to go on wikipedia to check the things you namedropped but were too lazy to infodump on, commit!!!

one thing that is so clear is that RF Kuang spends sooooooooo much time on twitter looking at that Neil Renic account and these other academic jokes ones.

Also, on the one hand I get it academic culture is pretty bad and all but its depiction is a bit cartoonishly unsubtle and definitely cartoonishly American. On the other hand this is fun

pages since last ouin ouin ouin j'ai fait Cambridge ouin ouin c'était dur: 0

non-zero chance the Tolkien estate could dislike this use of Lembas bread

already on page 2 you can tell this is fantasy by the way this British University is organised in North American fashion with US terminology not in use this side of the pond (nobody wanted to dance with me when I was in high school)

vouloir absolument parler du havre ne donne pas qqch à dire

one of the characters just said the title on page 95

really strong start, great writing so far

the English is a bit of a challenge, but already I remember why I liked it so much at 17 when I read it translated

this is very creative and quite fun

quel bonheur d'être à l'intersection linguistique-sociologie pour avoir occasionnellement le plaisir d'aller dans l'autre discipline lire des bangers comme celui-ci

the thing is, this is not written well enough for me to believe that the dialogue I just read is "uncharacteristically formal" and "dangerously convoluted", I just read it it was a normal English sentence with quite a simply structure and clear meaning like if you can't write it just tell me I'll believe you

bethnal green mentioned ptet Dracula est passé par chez moi

pp 221-224: 1) I love Van Helsing so SO MUCH 2) these are some of the greatest pages I have ever read

pp 221-224: 1) I love Van Helsing SO MUCH 2) these are some of the greatest pages I have ever read

the reveal of Van Helsing's first name was insane, Stoker really was like what if I named the really cool vampire hunter after myself and just did it

imagine s'appeler Wilhelmina

I feel like if I were them I would just not trust Van Helsing that much (even though I'm quite fond of him) which probably means I'd lose to Dracula or something

c'est super mais fuis un peu au lieu d'écrire des lettres frr

11 minutos tardes mais c'est trop trop bien

I could be into the romance if they talked like humans. Politics doesn't work like that. I don't care about the past storyline. Very very imperfect pacing. Hope that last cliffhanger isn't what I think it is