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I finally had to call it quits halfway through this book. It just meandered so much that I grew tired of waiting for something to actually happen. I cheated and read the recap on wikipedia and feel like I now know everything I care to know.
If you like long descriptive passages about architecture and history then you'll probably enjoy this. It just doesn't work for me and my reading temperament.
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If you like long descriptive passages about architecture and history then you'll probably enjoy this. It just doesn't work for me and my reading temperament.
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This book has just become one of my favorite books of all time. It's witty, funny, beautiful, scary, and horribly tragic all at the same time. The characters are intertwined like Dickens, and between the hunchback and the archdeacon there is a terrifying obsession like Phantom of the Opera. I loved it. I'm planning on rereading it as soon as possible.
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p. 36 If I exist, does this? Or if this exists, do I?
p. 131 the scaffold is a balance which has a man at one end ...more
Here are some quotes(No spoilers):
p. 36 If I exist, does this? Or if this exists, do I?
p. 131 the scaffold is a balance which has a man at one end ...more
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