This is the sexiest book I've ever read in my life. My god.

>a fucking GERMINAL thread on /lit/
well howdy fuckin dewdy
It's a good one.

Bought it the other day, but I still have to finish a few other books before starting Germinal. Is it good for my first zola novel? Or would you recommend something else?

>>8406950
Germinal has characters which follow over from previous novels. I'd recommend reading L'Assommoir first, especially as Germinal recaps the events in that book, essentially spoiling it.

>>8406895
What's sexy about it? It's gloomy as fuck.

>people liking Zola
W H E W L A D S

>>8406895
Ayy, it's pretty awesome. Probably the most balanced political novel I've read. Zola gives all the characters a chance to plead their case.

There was a decent film of it too, directed by Claude Berri.

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>>8407000
>And whenever a miner encountered one of these girls down on all fours, with her backside in the air and her hips bulging from her boy’s breeches, there would be a sudden whiff of animal lust in the air, the scent of male arousal.

>He followed her for one trip and watched her as she moved forward with her bottom in the air and her fists so low down that she seemed to be trotting on all fours like one of those dwarf animals that work in circuses. She was sweating and panting.

>She was his little woman, and together in dark corners they would experiment at the love they heard and saw going on at home behind partition walls or through cracks in the door. They knew all about it but had scarcely the means; as yet too young, they spent hours groping each other and pretending to do it like two naughty young puppies. He called it ‘playing mums and dads’, and whenever he took her off somewhere, she eagerly followed. She trembled with the delicious instinctive thrill of it as she allowed herself to be taken

Is this the one where they cut off a dudes dick and stomp all over it? Ya, it's pretty hot.