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Old 04-30-2011, 12:41 PM   #325
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Originally Posted by Asawi View Post
OK, I really need for someone to convince me AK is worth reading. I've read the first 50 or so pages, and absolutely nothing on them makes me want to go on. What am I missing?

I want to give this a go, but I really hate romance novels so it needs to have something more than that. Does it?

I'm genuinely asking here. There must be something I'm missing, or this book wouldn't have become the classic it is and getting all those votes here.
I've read Part 1 so far. "Romance novel" isn't a very accurate description... to me, it's really more a character study of some supremely selfish and self-centered people. More than once, I've said to myself, "Oh, s/he can't be that bad!" up until Tolstoy switches the perspective to that person and I'm like, "Holy crap! S/he's worse! What an ass!" Mind you, I really love reading about flawed people... so far, no one is irredeemable, but they are very human.
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