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Dorian
Dorian is 34% done
"I forgive you, she said.
Thank you. I think I did learn from it. And hopefully I have changed, you know, as a person. But honestly, if I have, it’s because of you.
They kept holding hands underneath the quilt, even after they went to sleep"
= am i supposed to find that shit romantic. it's not even well written
Apr 25, 2023 06:37AM
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Dorian
Dorian is finished
dnf at 36%
never again.
worse than s.j.mass, the twilight, and 50 shades combined.
Apr 25, 2023 08:15AM
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Dorian
Dorian is 95% done
"I guess everyone is a mystery in a way, she says. I mean, you can never really know another person, and so on.
Yeah. Do you actually think that, though?
It’s what people say"
= im real tempted to use the r-word
Apr 25, 2023 08:07AM
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Dorian
Dorian is 93% done
"Hey, he says".

"Hey, he says".

"Hey, he says".

"Hey, he says".

"Hey, he says".
Apr 25, 2023 08:03AM
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Dorian
Dorian is 34% done
"They have sex again, not speaking very much. After that she feels peaceful and wants to sleep. He kisses her closed eyelids. It’s not like this with other people, she says. Yeah, he says. I know. She senses there are things he isn’t saying to her".
= bring me something for the pain and let me die.
Apr 25, 2023 07:58AM
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Dorian
Dorian is 34% done
"Hm, she says".
"Hm, he says".

"Hm, she says".
"Hm, he says".

"Hm, she says".
"Hm, he says".

"Hm, she says".
"Hm, he says".

"Hm, she says".
"Hm, he says".
Apr 25, 2023 07:56AM
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Dorian
Dorian is 34% done
heteros dont deserve rights
Apr 25, 2023 06:38AM
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Dorian
Dorian is 28% done
i refuse to believe this is how people think and talk. or is it a west thing?
Apr 25, 2023 06:14AM
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Dorian
Dorian is 27% done
"I’ve missed you, she says.
This directness, coming so soon and so unexpectedly, makes him blush. He starts pouring the beer into the glass to divert his attention.
Yeah, you too, he says. I was kind of worried when you left school and all that. You know, I was pretty down about it."

if this is a a normal conversation in a novel about normal people, i want to be dead.
Apr 25, 2023 06:04AM
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Dorian
Dorian is 26% done
"But there it is: literature moves him. One of his professors calls it ‘the pleasure of being touched by great art’. In those words it almost sounds sexual"
= no. it's not.

one more thing. he never sounds like he's moved by literature. doesn't have an organ for it.
Apr 25, 2023 05:54AM
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Dorian
Dorian is 24% done
i can br nice about this book too: there's one interesting observation about how people form and express opinions.
Apr 25, 2023 05:09AM
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