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Originally Posted by issybird
And yet.... He is odious, and obtuse, and smug, but you (or at least I) have to feel a little sorry for someone who is so innately repellant. I first read the sequence decades ago and to be honest, not much had stayed with me when I picked it up again except for the appalling incident of the sugar bowl. How does anyone come back from that?
I'm glad you mentioned this; I got through the first five books on my reread before I got sidetracked and I want to return to it.
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By marrying a woman old enough to be his mother?
