Les Liaisons Dangerouses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

[Jess]

Starting the challenge a little bit behind, so catching up! So of course choosing a 557 page book. Oh, well. I'll catch up in a few weeks.

I'm definitely seeing why this has been adapted so many times, and it's a master of an epistolary novel, a style that's easy to be gimmicky or trite. Much of the language is just delicious in an 18th century Mean Girls kind of way.

That being said, the story has predictably disappointing gender politics, although you can feel that it pushes at what the norm was, there's still an awful lot that feels icky to the modern feminist.

But it's fun and frolicky, and I'm replaying teenage watchings of Cruel Intentions in my mind - very......slowly..... ;)