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Ahh…One of those books where you reach the finish, and turn straight back to the first page to begin again.
No, not really. One of those books where you reach the finish, and sob with relief that your long waking nightmare is finally at an end.
— Sep 05, 2020 04:41AM
No, not really. One of those books where you reach the finish, and sob with relief that your long waking nightmare is finally at an end.
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is on page 1221 of 1534
“My heart within me is desolate…For my days are consumed like smoke: and my bones are burnt as the hearth. My heart is smitten and withered like grass: so that I forget to eat my bread.” Yeah, same.
— Aug 13, 2020 02:20PM
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is on page 1125 of 1534
“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the book forever!” And oh that this book went on for 1500 fucking pages!
— Jul 22, 2020 01:22PM
Warwick
is on page 1017 of 1534
“If a single woman [in the Isle of Man] prosecutes a single man for a rape…if he be convicted, the deemster, or judge, delivers to the woman a rope, a sword, and a ring; and she has it in her choice to have him hanged, beheaded, or to marry him. One of the two former, I think, should always be her option.”
— Jul 01, 2020 01:30PM
Warwick
is on page 882 of 1534
“Thou’lt observe…that though this was written afterwards, yet I write it as it was spoken, and happened…I know thou likest this lively present-tense manner, as it is one of my peculiars.” No, Lovelace, everyone hates present tense narration.
— Jun 04, 2020 01:29PM
Warwick
is on page 572 of 1534
“I, loving narrative letter-writing above every other species of writing”
You don’t say.
— Mar 02, 2020 12:38PM
You don’t say.
Warwick
is 30% done
I feel like the amount of time required to write all these letters would not leave enough time in the day to actually do all the things they're writing about…
— Feb 19, 2020 06:25AM
Warwick
is 20% done
They've taken away Clarissa's pen and paper - bitch is still knocking off 10,000 words a day using an old pencil and backs of envelopes. OK, her family are awful, but to be fair someone does need to stop her. She's like those people on Twitter whose tweets start with (1/78)
— Nov 26, 2019 02:01AM
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I was actually quite emotional at the end! But yeah, this is definitely the longest I’ve been reading a book (11 months or so), possibly I should have just read it all through instead of in dribs and drabs in bed.
You're now one of the only three people I know of to have successfully read this to the end.
I do hope the others are recovering OK.
Congratulations on finishing this behemoth! I read Pamela by the same author for an 18th c literature class, and it in no way made me want to read something similar but three times as long. I came across lit crit that referred to the heroine's 'prehensile ear for praise,' and the wonderful aptness of that phrase has stuck with me much longer than anything in book itself.
Haha! That is a terrifying turn of phrase indeed.
I've congratulated a few people on finishing books that were a terrible slog, but I think this deserves it more than most.