I had to read it for class, so to finish it in time meant blazing through 989 pages in the 7 days of spring break and I do not recommend that pace for this particular book 🫠
That said, it was more interesting (and funny, in places) than I expected. 👀 It’s so thicc and the large cast of characters can be challenging to keep track of, but if you’re into that sort of thing and want to read a Victorian classic that helped establish the detective novel genre, go for it!
Mar 18, 2024
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This is one of the longest books I’ve read continuously, never feeling disinterested. It had me on hook for all of it and it’s amazing. The ficked up wealthy family‘s journey through the middle of the 20th century, with a breatakingly shocking end told to us right at the beginning. Just a phenomenal work of art.
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This book is not for the weak but trust me it’s soooo worth it. The story contains a lot of suspense and inner turmoil which I enjoyed. Also I loved the characters and all of their complexities. The Russian names can be hard to keep up with though.
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I have about 90 pages left and it’s a very long book but trust me once you start reading you’ll get through it quickly because it’s just so good
It’s about a teacher in 2011 who is told to go through a portal to the fifties and live there in order to prevent jfk’s assassination and it is So incredibly interesting
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bc it’s what I originally wanted when I first went to college at 17 but I was scared to make writing my job and got a B.S. in Nutrition instead lol
Now the goal is an eventual PhD in Victorian Literature but I’m just happy to have made it through this part at 32!
Stacked is everything I read in my English courses—barely pictured are the 5 stuffed accordion folders of other reading materials under my chair haha
May 16, 2024
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the only place i win the social interaction
Aug 21, 2024
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conflusional. delonfident, even
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