Napoleon
3.75
Slow first half (and too many historical names and characters), killer second half, I think I would've enjoyed this more if i were British, but that's a worse fate than that of the princes in the tower.
I dream of a moment when, without my asking, my actions will betray completely this part of me that asks for nothing.
What a book. So intoxicating, so perversely probing into the deepest parts of jealousy and obsession. A sin on paper.
This book is $25 on Amazon, and all it does is edge you with the idea of this slight edge, which boils down to “small steps everyday”. that's literally it. I haven't paid for this book and i want a refund. I hate this book so much, give me my time back. i hate it i hate it i hate it FUCK YOUUUUUUUU JEFF OLSON STOP SLIGHTLY EDGING ME WITH YOUR MEDIOCRE WRITING STYLE.
Romantic intrigue done right, seduction, manipulation, fleshed out characters and a fitting atmosphere. A recipe for disaster that Laclos paints so well.
Among the many flaws of this book, this is the biggest :
A mystery book shouldn't aim to be lighthearted and funny.
you spend your life running from it, using vice after vice to find some sort of control, and in the end, it doesn't even matter, and the hole in your chest is as big as it always was.
depressing in the most beautiful of ways.
98 years after this novel was written, i finally find out who murdered good old roger.
My soul is so full of this book, it resonates with my desires and my regrets and, perhaps most importantly, my futile need for contact. My Solaris.
