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part four! only 101 pages left

still going on this. i get very reluctant to pick it up whenever the next letter is one of merteuil or esp valmont's long ass ramblings. the writing is excellent on a sentence level, but i hate these people.

on a sentence level, the writing is delightful, but maybe part of why i'm dragging this out so long is i don't enjoy and am not in the headspace for something where 90%+ of the text is trying to manipulate and deceive. the last chapter just pissed me off and i don't even give a crap about any of these people. deceit in dialog is one thing, an epistolary novel of nothing but is another.

it seems i only pick this up when i'm between other books and can't decide what to read next. it's not that it's bad, just extremely putdownable.