Unpopular-I’m-sure-opinion: for me, the turning point was A Confederacy of Dunces. Hit page 100, just http://could.not.see.why.everyone.loved.it and put it down. First book where I did that on purpose. Felt... so liberating.https://twitter.com/scicurious/status/1014908137646804992 …
Yes it is. I read it for school in 12th grade and then my whole family read it, many of its phrases entering the household patois, so I can’t judge the book clearly. And I ust bonded with a young Italian legal scholar over it at an after-conference party; the book keeps giving!
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But I know the feeling you describe and felt it acutely with Patrick Leigh-Fermor’s Time of Gifts, ach whatxa bitter disappointment
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