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this is the only Zola book i have read twice (and only because it was assigned in college). and since it's been twenty years since my first read, i thought i should, in fairness, read it again as i work my way through the Rougon-Macquart series.
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| someone has confused this novel with A Night of Love, which is a collection of short stories. i have attempted to begin to fix the combined editions, but there are so many jumbled here, it's very confusing. To be clear: A Love Episode is a single nov...more | |
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Notre Dame And The Civil War (In): Marching Onward To Victory
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| a bit disappointing return to aimlessness for O'Brian. this started off strong, had some really interesting things building, and then just sort of listed off the map once goal-fever set in on board. halfway through, Pullings got put ashore and someho...more | |
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the opening of this book in the series is brilliant: Jack at home, domesticated, as it were, but pining for the sea; his poverty and family obligations bending--but not breaking him.
once we get on board and out to Mauritius, the story felt a bit m...more |
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| best so far of the series. stephen is much less weird and bitchy in this one (perhaps torture humbles him a bit), and it feels so much less all over the place than the previous two; there's an actual plot with some over-arching complications, and an ...more | |
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