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Originally Posted by freemonkey
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Originally Posted by livius drusus
The Count of Monte Cristo, the hugely complicated and long unabridged version. I'm 300 pages in and I heart the shit out of it. Anybody who doesn't like Dumas is a butt, as far as I'm concerned, because that brother could write an adventure story like nobody's bidness.
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that is sitting on my bookshelf and I keep looking at it. But it's so fucking huge, I'm askeert of it. |
Don't be skeert! Think of it as a bedside book, something to pick up and read nightly for the indefinite future. That way it's enormous girth is an advantage because you don't have to look for anything new anytime soon, and it's not intimidating because the whole plan is have something to read forever.