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Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
I clearly am not as smart as everyone who gives this book the highest praise and calls it a masterpiece because reader I hated it. I can't think of a single character who had a pleasurable personality to read about and every interaction between every person was uncomfortable to experience even from a distance. I've read and loved a lot of classics but this one just was not for me in the slightest. Even the romance portion was depressing. I chose to read this on audio (20 hrs in case you were wondering) and all of the French phrases that often had huge impacts on the story were not translated with any context leading me confused more often than not. It turns out my physical copy had translations at the end of the book making me think maybe that would have been the better choice but I truly don't think I could have finished this without a constant (if terrible) narrorator reading it to me.