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chapter 3 gets hate but marx is funny

mutiny is less annoying than grand inquisitor tbqh

the boat scene has left me dumbstruck it is truly one of the best things i’ve read

i am “done” with the book but the index will occupy me for a good while

i think it’s very cool how nabokov’s major novels are about reading and he makes fun of you the entire time while casually flexing that he speaks better english than every native speaker who’s ever lived

we are back

book one part one finished

starting act 5 soon this shits fire

(part one done)

The dinner scene was enough for me to really fall in love with this; very glad I stuck with it! Frankly had a lot more time to read this than I ended up spending today but this year has been pretty good, looking forward to this being my first finished novel of 2025 i guess, not that anyone cares 👹

was reading expecting it to help me sleep at this point and it just clicked

its hard to stop playing who’s lila

Woolf’s prose is an interesting beast; I can’t say I love nor hate it, just has many ups and downs. The sheer subjectivity of the novel is fascinating a lot of the time, and there are so many beautiful flourishes to it, but some sentences read like parody; between two lines of dialogue like “It is fine” and “Very well” there’ll be similes bordering on infinite recursion lmao. it’s all v introspective