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Why is this book not more discussed?
9 volumes long, and you never see the narrator-protagonist older than 5 years old, except for a volume-long digression describing his travels through Europe.
Constantly breaking the fourth wall, as experimental a timing as can be, extremely funny, joyous, but full of philosophy and religion, while satirizing both, pretty much indescribable but an excellent read. One of the only books I finished, and immediately started re-reading. It almost makes me cry to think of Sterne writing this thing while he was dying of tuberculosis. He writes about sex, he writes about the baptism of the unborn, he writes about the principles of fortification, he writes about obstetrics, politics, love, everything.
The film version is pretty good too.
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>>8256425
It's long, hard, old, and not memey enough on /lit/ to bother.
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>>8256425
cause it's too patrician for /lit/
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>>8256432
So am I but it doesn't stop me
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This fucking book is discussed every time one of you snowflakes makes this copypaste thread. So they talk about it every three days or so.
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>>8256425
yeah but he wasn't as tasteful a sentimentalist as Mackenzie
he was funnier, sure, but the trade-off is that he was often indecent
still, everyone should read him. except, I think, women.
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funny how one of the most famous things about the book is the stupid marbled page stunt
anybody who thinks that's genius can get the fuck out
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what's the best edition of this book? i've always wanted to read this book
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>>8257936
What "stunt" is that?
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