infinite stfu

[lotesse]

rargh reading Trollope (Can You Forgive Her?) and wanting to wallbang so hard. Is he worth it? should I skim or wikipedia and pretend I finished it? Six hundred more pages of this! I wouldn't mind the boredom so much if he'd stop breaking the fourth wall to lecture me on the silliness of my ideas that my selfhood should be central to my life-choices!

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[starlady]

I'm fine with his characters, but as soon as his narratorial voice comes in I want to spit the novel out instantly.

I feel much the same about Tolstoy.

Which Trollope book is it where he goes on about how a woman isn't worth getting involved with if she's already fallen in love with someone at whatever point, because the bloom is off the rose?

[lotesse]

Oh god ugh! I've no idea - I'm just dipping into him for the first time - but I'm not surprised to hear such things reported of him.