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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just started Possession, based on a recommendation from a "best fiction" thread on DCUM.

So far I'm finding it very difficult to get into, but the other authors that poster recommended are some of my absolute favorites, so I'm hoping this one clicks soon.[/quote]

I read this last year (also based on DCUM). I think it requires a fair amount of hard work— it’s not a slog, but it asks a lot of the reader. There are aspects of it (particularly the poems and stories in the Romantic style spread throughout the book) that are truly brilliant, but at the same time, require a lot of work to read and decipher. I feel as though I would’ve been best served by reading the book in a lit class. I did take a course on the Romantic poets while in college so I felt that I had some context, since the two Victorian poets are an amalgamation of real people.

Anyway, I’m glad I read it, but do feel like it’s an undertaking![/quote]

PP and I love your comment about reading the book in a lit class.  I definitely feel like I'd be getting more out of it in that type of environment.

Reading this book also made me realize that I never read poems or songs injected into novels.  I just skip over them.  This book really drove that home because there are so many of them!  I'm sure it's all thematically related and beautifully done but I'm definitely missing that layer.

Anyway, I'm someone who rarely DNFs so I'll continue to plow through.[/quote]

Oh yes. I skimmed them (particularly as the story went on) and am sure I missed really important context. There’s one thing buried in the poems that I know I missed, but only from some critiques from the book. But ah well. Life’s too short. [/quote]

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