grb8 's review for:

Candide by Voltaire
2.0

I found this book — despite its brevity — so unreasonably hard to get through. I suppose like most philosophical writing, fiction or not, it’s just so enamored with its point that it offers very little in the way of art.

Read this as a companion to the French Revolution history I’m working on, so it wasn’t my main course, so to speak. But it was a tough appetizer to get through. More than once I fell asleep reading it and a couple times became frustrated with my inability to engage.