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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
read for a class. contained WAY more information about the protagonist’s digestive system than I EVER wanted to know. no context spoiler: sexy locomotives
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The most jaded character ever? The original hipster? All in all I had tons of fun reading this book (it's Dorian Gray's favorite!)-- but I suffered through the chapter on how he organized the Latin section of his bookshelf.
This tiny door of a book concealing so much beauty, prose so delightfully purple, abstruse and effusive that when the description reaches an impossible pinnacle one is gripped by the impulse to bury one's face in the open pages, vaguely expecting it to be soaked with the perfume of crushed florals. One imagines that a special foliosociety edition, if it were ever to be made, would have that, and more, finely ornamented inside and out like one of the frail, refined, misanthropic aristocrat's books. It seems right that Against Nature was the inspiration for the book that corrupted Dorian Gray; when the former is infinitely more stylised and more erudite. Des Esseintes is a true (and perhaps therefore jaded) connoisseur of sensation, in comparison Dorian Gray barely divined the value of his precious possessions. It is a matter of some amusement to find the very things that wear on his patience still doggedly present in this world.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Enjoyed the botany and aroma chapters a lot, but the highlight was the final chapter paired with the appendix.
‘it really is all over; the waters of human mediocrity, like a tidal wave, are rising up to the sky and will engulf this haven whose sea-walls I have with my own hands most unwillingly breached.’
‘it really is all over; the waters of human mediocrity, like a tidal wave, are rising up to the sky and will engulf this haven whose sea-walls I have with my own hands most unwillingly breached.’
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
funny
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated