A crucial part of the bookstore experience is saying hi to all the books you’ve already read

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A crucial part of the bookstore experience is saying hi to all the books you’ve already read
Sometimes I see a book review that's like "THIS BOOK 👉 📖 is SICK 🤢 and TWISTED 😵💫 Not only are there TORTURE SCENES 😵🩸 against WOMEN 🙋♀️ (anti feminist much????! 😡) but also SEX 🫂 VIOLENCE 🔪 and RELIGIOUS TRAUMA?? 🙏⛪ (random???? 🫥🤔) I would NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK 🙅❌ to ANYONE ‼️‼️ it is PERVERSE 🤨 and WEIRD!!! 😱 I did NOT expect this from THIS BOOK!!.! 😤" and the book is titled The Twisted Pervert's Guide to Torture and Lesbian Nun Sex
I just finished The Three Musketeers, and this might be the best book I've ever read in my life, mostly because every single character is batshit insane and drunk for 90% of their Big Plot Decisions. Lights up on d'Artagnan: he's new in town and he's already making enemies. He meets his three best friends by scheduling back to back duels with them, under the assumption that he won't have to fight the last two if he dies in the first one. He is twenty years old and has never even heard of a frontal cortex. This is made evident by every word he says. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are supposedly in their 20s-30s, but barely any better. The moment they have any money at all, they siphon it directly into their alcohol budget. They make enemies everywhere they go and get into almost as many duels as d'Artagnan. Also worth mentioning: they see this crazed 20-year-old and choose to devote their lives to him simply because he has good vibes. We've got the cardinal, who seems only tangentially related to any kind of clergyhood. We've got the king, whose main personality trait is that he HATES his wife. We've got the queen, whose main personality trait is cheating on her husband. We've got the Duke of Buckingham, who is (unfortunately) English. We've got the Love of d'Artagnan's Life, aka somebody else's wife but he sucks so he can get cuckolded. And finally, we've got the prototype female manipulator, a character written with such intense feminism AND misogyny that I scarcely know what to say about her except "go off, queen" as well as the occasional "I don't support all women, some of you are stupid." Do yourself a favor and commit 5-12 weeks to reading this book, if for no other reason than the part where d'Artagnan tells a guy "I'll spring you from jail, don't worry, it's all part of the plan!" and then immediately forgets him in prison and flirts with his wife.
realistically there is no chance i will have time to read, imma still bring a book though
love elizabeth s.