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Just finished Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig. It's the story of a humble officer who befriends the crippled daughter of a wealthy aristocrat. Most of the actions is internal. This gets a bit tedious when the main character gets. Overall it kept my interest and there was usually something in the air to keep your attention through the dull bits. It dealt with the themes of honor, love, sexual attraction, duty, bravery, and social status quite nicely. Next up: Lolita
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azthth posted:I just read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire and I cannot understand why anyone likes this novel. I'm into alternate history, magical realism, and I've read other authors who are usually classified as the same style as Maguire but I just thought this book went nowhere and was utterly useless besides watching the author rush through and attempt to shock readers while still staying close to the lfrankbaum reality. If it makes you feel any better, I had pretty much the same reaction after reading it. I didn't notice the shock, because I didn't really find any of it that shocking. It felt like there was supposed to be more about judging people by appearances and animal rights, but those themes never really coalesced into some sort of point. I hadn't thought about this before, but it kind of shows what kind of particularly cruel and unjust system you could produce if you built it upon a childish sense of justice. "No silly, it doesn't matter if a donkey talks, he still has to pull a cart, that's what donkey's do." "Ugly people scare me and therefor are evil." If that was the point, I think it's pretty heavily buried in ephemeral distracting vaguely angsty poo poo.
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Zero Karizma posted:The thing I liked most of all was the early blood transfusions they do, where the only screening process is that you needed to be a "strong man" to give blood to ANYONE. Lucy gets 4 random blood donors. She was lucky to live as long as she did! Maybe she was AB+?
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