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The use of holocaust here feels incredibly inappropriate

I just remembered today's my birthday

.... FSF sure does like to throw random shit around

Hold up, are they genuinely throwing around the morals of selling bootleg alcohol while pissed?

An Oxford man! Like hell her is! He wears a pink suit.

Do I have something to tell you about toffs and "fashion" Tom

Gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman

Eager to be serfs... Obstinate about being peasantry

From the lore around this book I thought Gatsby was supposed to be cool and mysterious. Nope he's just a dorky little loser

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die

And found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say

O nick that's so cringe it hurts old sport

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world

Fuck me, these are the worst people ever. I was not expecting the violence

"He was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome"

Just when I start to really worry you go and pull out a Tolstoyesque description like that and I'm right back in

You can use a word like supercilious once and sounds cool, twice sounds like you're trying too hard

Do love the term "tanked up" though

"Ashes grow like wheat into ridges" I hate this description so much. I guess he means piles of ash not trees but who the fuck knows because it fails to actually impart what it's trying to say by pretending to be poetic and so misses the mark both ways. Distractingly bad

These people are all right on the edge and ready to jump

I do love the idea of unsettling men by calling them a flower

I googled the eggs, they don't look like eggs

"I had a dog - at least I had him for a few days until he ran away" is such disarming nonsense. I went from la de da to unsettled in a split second. What is he trying to say?? It's not that deep, but is it? What?

If all the bad people can get together and show strength in unity, honest men must do the same.

Their relationship is so lovely

I'll fight you Nikolay, just give me half a chance

We all love Pierre and hate uncle Nikolay kid

"Just a lump of flesh" I hate him so much

Fuck I didn't think he could get worse. Just die already Nikolay

I just adore so much how Natasha always comes to life whenever Pierre is there, throughout the whole book but especially since they're reunited

Marya deserved better!

Nikolay deserved to be shot by the French

Sonya deserved better!

She might not despise you but I do Nikolay. At least Dolokhov is an honest psychopath