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‘He thinks so much of his business.’
'Oh! I didn’t know,’ said Mr Melmotte.
‘He sits at the same board with you, I think, Mr Melmotte.’
‘Oh – that’s his business!’ said Mr Melmotte, with a grim smile.

Why is every dialogue like this help. I can't with this book-

Idk, but the cover of this just feels as both silly and serious as the book and I love it

"'Oh, Felix, say that you love me.’ Then she put her face up towards his again.
‘Of course I love you,’ he said, not thinking it worth his while to kiss her."

—Trollope giggling aggressively while writing the whole conversation

"‘Did I?’
‘Did you not?’
‘I don’t know what I said. Perhaps if I said that, I didn’t mean it.’
‘Am I to believe that?’
‘Perhaps you didn’t mean it yourself.’"

...Guys you've been going like this for pages.

'“What... shall... we do with…you?” he said. “Where is... the…Grand…Vizier?”

The crowd parted. Rincewind risked a sideways squint.

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: “Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.”'

Me: what if I finish one book before reading like 5 at the same time?
Also me: ...No.

I'm seriously dumbfounded like- I just wanted an introduction for Milton's poetry. But apparently I can't even describe what I've just read other than "HOW do I rate this 6 STARS." because genuinely what-

"When these reservations have been made, the case of the advocatus diaboli against Paradise Lost is, I believe, complete."

My man how do you not have a million reviews here???? THIS is literature, what-

Ok this one is definitely the best so far. Also now I really want to read the Divine Comedy-

So far this is the best in the saga. What's going on lmao. Rincewind, get out of there 😭

"Lovecraft 😔❤️❤️❤️❤️" ―Me every four words here

...Second time this year I've read about "The Castle of Otranto" in a Lovecraft biography lmao. At this point they are just shouting at me that I should read it 😭

Lovecraft you'll forever be my favorite horror author <3

1800 pages in my file...

...S. T. Joshi is spoiling me 😔🤚

'—and then we're manhandled by guards and thrown in here—'
'Pushed gently,' corrected Garhartra.
'—which turned out to be this amazingly rich room and there's all this food and a man saying he's devoting his life to making us happy,' Twoflower concluded. 'What I'm getting at is this sort of lack of consistency.'

...Exactly.

no way, Lovecraftian eldritch horror cameo?

...ok I can see where some of the negative reviews come from; clearly the City Watch series is the better introduction to Ankh-Morpork (...well, I also miss Vimes).
I love Rincewind already, though. I'm waiting for him to interact with the librarian lol

“Look,” said Vimes, “if I have to turn and run, just hang on, okay? Running is another skill a policeman sometimes needs.”
He turned to the crowd of impassive goblins and said, “I am Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch! How can I help you?”
“Just ice!” The cry caused things to drop from the ceiling.

Help, they are so cute 😭😭😭😭 Justice, Vimes, JUSTICE!!

Are you two done fighting? Yes? Thank you, I need my goblins 💔

GOBLINS???
That's it, if the story has goblins, it's an automatic 10/10 from me.

WHERE. IS. HIS. COW.

...The subplot of the painting theft is probably going to be the most important thing to solve the case in the book, and here's Vimes just ignoring it

Not the girl she just met trying to steal her boyfriend?? What did Angua do to you???? 😭

The whole situation is giving Disco Elysium I love it