pk1 's review for:

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

DID NOT FINISH

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Well what a waste of time. Made it 168 pages in. AND NOTHING HAPPENED. He just goes around buying dead serfs’ names from landowners. Even when not doing that (like going to parties) it’s completely uninteresting. Gogol goes into painstaking detail about unimportant things that don’t advance the plot. I had to force myself to pick this up and continue reading. Not worth it. I’ll just read a summary of the ending.