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"He’d had girlfriends and relationships and he was averagely handsome, but around girls, especially party girls, he suffered from the unattractive qualities of shyness and of being dull and bookish. He had no charm and was lousy entertainment in company."
The real horror, a socially awkward dude trying to date.

An image of the Sacred Heart in an Eastern Orthodox style. That's not how it works.

So far, not impressed. A little over a tenth in and the WASP has acquired a foreign girlfriend by virtue of losing a fistfight.

"“There are no police in Noua, only in Brasov. If they come it is in one hour. If they come.” The turn of phrase reverberated in Paul’s mind, ‘If they come.’ There was something ominous about this. He was in a location where, in the event of an emergency or crime or trouble, the police would turn up in an hour, if they turned up at all. It made him feel exposed and unprotected."
Grow up, buddy.

Too early to say yet. Not impressed with the prose, but it isn't bad either. The portrayal of Romania sounds extremely stereotypical, but does the job. No idea what Romania is actually like. I assume they have hot water by now. I'm pleasantly surprised if they have images of the Sacred Heart instead.

Porphyrys book on logic remained the standard textbook for more than a millennium.