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An absurd but thoroughly fun adventure story. Very readable despite its age.
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
The narrative is like a soap with constantly characters returning from the dead, balanced out by the sharp and witty descriptions the agony of everyday life, in terms of slavery, illness, rape, religious prosecution and war. Candide himself and his love interest remain bland and predominantly a storytelling attribute, but characters li ...more
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
The narrative is like a soap with constantly characters returning from the dead, balanced out by the sharp and witty descriptions the agony of everyday life, in terms of slavery, illness, rape, religious prosecution and war. Candide himself and his love interest remain bland and predominantly a storytelling attribute, but characters li ...more
DNF @ 68%. I know it's short, I just can't face reading any more. I get that it's satire but I am just finding it intensely ridiculous and highly irritating. Maybe a future more-tolerant me will return to it but for now, I quit. Satire is not my bag.
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Challenged to read a book that has been banned at some point in history, I picked up this classic satire. I lacked the background to appreciate much of what was being satirized. Despite that, it was still a ridiculous, comical, irreverent book.
This is one of those classic reads that I thought I knew what it was about, and it was completely different. It is an accessible read, and has some laugh out loud moments, but there is a lot of graphic violence
While I appreciate a takedown of the truly obnoxious "everything happens for a reason" platitude, this was extremely silly and unsubtle.
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Jan 30, 2011
Genia Lukin
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Apr 02, 2013
Susan
marked it as to-read
May 29, 2013
Julie
marked it as to-read
Jul 19, 2023
Bepina Vragec
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Nov 15, 2024
Amber
marked it as on-my-bookshelf
