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5.0
I was going to buy some modernist books, like The Stranger and The Plague etc, when I went on a free shopping spree (aka I went to Project Gutenberg) and saw this under the new arrivals. I wanted to read this ever since I found out that they exist (4 whole months). At one point, I even took it out of the library while I was still studying in England.
Did I mention I have an artistic crush on FMF? He is my modernist bae.
Either way, these books totally threw my plans out of the window and like a geek I am, I was super excited to spend my holiday reading about King Henry VIII’s fifth wife.
And I was kinda disappointed. It was good, it was interesting but for some reason it felt like a play with extended descriptions. He got the language right, but it felt like he got the rest wrong. It was incongruous and distracted me from the plot, that to be honest I still don’t get. Who are these people, what kind of plot are they trying to not uncover?
Like huh?
Will read this until the end, but I get why people much prefer Parade’s End. That book is amazing and mind blowing. This is his teenage work in comparison, that he wrote to impress his history teacher and he gave him an F because the plot is 99% made up.
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