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Evil nuns, pacts with the Devil, murder... I loved the critical look on religion and how thought provoking it is even today; back then it must have been hidden in the depths of bookshelves and read in secret during the night. The ending took me a bit by surprise, I did not expect that. Overall this can definitely be enjoyed by fans of over the top Gothic melodrama.
a solid 3.5 stars - a little slow in places due to random outbursts of long-form poetry, but an engaging tale otherwise.
an infamously "gothic" book (the GR summary says it was a fave of de Sade's), feel free to use this as a counter example any time someone thinks the classics are all boring and stuffy. at it's heart, it's a morality play in which huge pride goeth before a spectacular fall, but it's also a lurid melodrama involving ghosts and demons and cross-dressing monks and murder weapons. ...more
an infamously "gothic" book (the GR summary says it was a fave of de Sade's), feel free to use this as a counter example any time someone thinks the classics are all boring and stuffy. at it's heart, it's a morality play in which huge pride goeth before a spectacular fall, but it's also a lurid melodrama involving ghosts and demons and cross-dressing monks and murder weapons. ...more
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