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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
It’s odd, isn’t it, that AB couldn’t see the value of a slow reveal by an omniscient third person narrator. Apart from anything else, the minute reporting of long conversations in both the letters and the journal were a bit hard to swallow.
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It also would have saved Gilbert as a romantic hero, since the reader would have been spared his sneering commentary on his friends and his constant self-justification and aggrandizement.
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Really, this is another of those rare books that are much better on film than on the page.
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Absolutely!