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This smugly detailed nightmare of patriarchal domestic bliss is giving me dry heaves, tbh.

Only the epilogue left... and it's a hundred pages, OF COURSE, lol. You shall not defeat me, book!

Did I really just read a lengthy paragraph waxing sentimental about how "real" women listen to a man by "selecting and absorbing all that is best" about said dude, as opposed to those vile "clever" women who use their "own little mental workshops" to actually make sense of what he's saying? Yes, yes, I did. Excuse me while I actually go barf.

historians are all biased and wrong, napoleon was a miserable little coward, military strategy does not exist, Pierre finds Deep Meaning and Inner Peace (again), the Rostov siblings don't have three brain cells to rub together between them, blah blah ramblecakes.

Wait... did you just die out of... ennui? A bad dream? Total misapprehension re: the nature of life? I feel like I do not comprehend a single hyper-artificial emotion that motivates these people.

If anyone survives this, it certainly won't be thanks to their brains.

Prince Andrei's had An Epiphany and bemoans his former ignorance! What an amazingly unexpected development that does not at all happen every 50 pages!

In which Nikolai falls violently in love because someone is just... there, existing in front of him. Must be Tuesday.

I'm starting to feel like if you held a wooden spatula in front of Natasha's face and told her it fancied her or it was God, she would drop everything else and fawn all over it, passionately forswearing all else. Until you held a rock in front of her and told her THAT fancied her now.

Romantic idiocy overdose! Kinda glad to be going back to war. (But where is Temeraire to save the day??)