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Or I could spend my Monday reading. A lot.
I meant to accomplish things today, but Dragonfly in Amber has been happening. And also a nap.
So: Jack Randall looks a bit different when you have read enough books whose protagonists are sadists and/or sociopaths--or maybe it's just a result of being ten years older than the first time I read this--which makes his bits no easier to read and possibly harder. Curse you, Diana Gabaldon, for making me feel bad for everyone involved.
(For future reference: if you happen to be reading the Dell paperback with dragonfly, goblet, and plaid on the cover, everything starts going Horribly Wrong on page 367. I am hoping to fix in my mind just how much of the book is spent on the Everything Goes Horribly Wrong part; I found it much easier to rewatch The Shawshank Redemption (which I did a lot, in the few years after I first saw it) once I had determined that the Subplot of Greatest Unpleasantness covered about nineteen minutes of the film and then was safely over.)
So: Jack Randall looks a bit different when you have read enough books whose protagonists are sadists and/or sociopaths--or maybe it's just a result of being ten years older than the first time I read this--which makes his bits no easier to read and possibly harder. Curse you, Diana Gabaldon, for making me feel bad for everyone involved.
(For future reference: if you happen to be reading the Dell paperback with dragonfly, goblet, and plaid on the cover, everything starts going Horribly Wrong on page 367. I am hoping to fix in my mind just how much of the book is spent on the Everything Goes Horribly Wrong part; I found it much easier to rewatch The Shawshank Redemption (which I did a lot, in the few years after I first saw it) once I had determined that the Subplot of Greatest Unpleasantness covered about nineteen minutes of the film and then was safely over.)
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But I do really like all the Roger and Bree parts on either end of the book, and wee!Fergus is darling, and so on. So, you know, it's not as bad as I was remembering! Give it a try!
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