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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
4.25
adventurous funny reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Easily could of been a 5 .... If it was actually finished.. sadly Gogol burned the rest!! 

I loved the sarcastic humour of Gogol. The people the crook Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov meet are still very much the kind of people you still meet today. I felt the narrative comments fun and like Gogol was talking to me personally. By the end I feel like I had a strange parasocial relationship with a Ukrainian Author from 200 years ago. 

Sadly though Part 2 is really all over the place, it's clear it wasn't finished. And the concluded chapters just end in the middle of speech. 

I did find it hard to get going too. Not because it was boring. But because it's a novel from 200 years ago and it took a while to get used to the style. I did end up listening to the audiobook most of the time, which I thoroughly enjoyed, even if the speaker gave the russian muzhiks cockney accents innit.