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Money is the root of every problem and turns you into an animal, but without money, you also have a problem.
That is the main issue with struggling-poet Gordon Comstock. He rots in his cheap boarding-house room and borrows money from his sister every now and then. Quit his well paying job in order to earn less and therefore be more “real”
Such a good read so far

I was waiting to read this while I was in Austria and honestly I’m sort of disappointed so far. I’m not falling in love with it yet and it just seems very boring. As of right now I’m not sure how the rest of the 220ish pages will be filled

I find it so stupid that the way Cal died was from a bee sting. After all this time of building up this secret death, it ends up being because of the fact that Cal would drug his younger brother with Benadryl and then didn't have any left over when he got stung and needed the pills. Come on... anything would've been better

I'm so confused. The plot of this book is woven in with a droning backstory. It never ends, and I don't give a shit! Get to the point. From now on I'm skimming the rest of the book until I get to anything actually worth reading. There are some beautiful sentences but still... #wasteoftime

Not super interesting so far. Not my favorite

This book is beautifully written. My copy has some typos but apart from that this book is amazing to read. Another note: this book is surprisingly dense.
In a letter Professor Bartleboom writes to his future lover, he writes:
"Do we say everything with a single word, or with a single word do we conceal everything? I am here, a stone's throw from the sea, and I cannot even understand where it is. The sea. The sea."