Oh my god, that sounds amazing. I need to get me a copy of that!
Totally worth it.
I loved Charlotte Temple because it was so. very. dramatic. and not because it had an awesome plot.
Yeah, that's pretty much the selling point for Pamela as well. There's less melodrama than Charlotte Temple, though, and more of Pamela being overwrought about things we wouldn't consider a big deal today.
It was boring, it was unnecessarily complex - one sentence extended an entire fucking chapter, thankyouverymcuh, which is bad enough in English but when it's in your second language....no. Just no.
ZOMG. I enjoy modernism and its associated stylistic tricks to a perhaps unhealthy degree (Ulysses and I are like THIS), and that sounds painful even to me.
I've heard I need to read Borges, and Marquez as well. They and Cortázar are definitely going on my list. Thanks for the recs!
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Date: 2010-07-31 07:29 pm (UTC)Totally worth it.
I loved Charlotte Temple because it was so. very. dramatic. and not because it had an awesome plot.
Yeah, that's pretty much the selling point for Pamela as well. There's less melodrama than Charlotte Temple, though, and more of Pamela being overwrought about things we wouldn't consider a big deal today.
It was boring, it was unnecessarily complex - one sentence extended an entire fucking chapter, thankyouverymcuh, which is bad enough in English but when it's in your second language....no. Just no.
ZOMG. I enjoy modernism and its associated stylistic tricks to a perhaps unhealthy degree (Ulysses and I are like THIS), and that sounds painful even to me.
I've heard I need to read Borges, and Marquez as well. They and Cortázar are definitely going on my list. Thanks for the recs!