#slogging through several chapters of extremely dry scene-setting
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There's nothing like the audiobook experience of driving down the road going into hysterics over a 150-year-old novel.
#so it turns out that for some reason i have access to a selection of audible audiobooks#they seem to be all classics which is just fine with me#it gives me access to more obscure classics that my library doesn't have#read by professional actors instead of some monotone guy on librivox#(some librivox narrators are great unfortunately the one reading trollope isn't one of them)#and anyway audio is turning out to be a great way to experience 'doctor thorne'#if you zone out during the long and absurdly wordy passages it's okay#and then the dialogue (aka: the good stuff) can be elevated to high comedy levels by a good actor#the election speeches had me in stitches#especially since they're frequently interrupted by hecklers#which i'm sure plays much better in audio than on the page#also the experience with trollope is once again turning out to be#slogging through several chapters of extremely dry scene-setting#with only a few glimmers of interesting characters to keep me interested#until suddenly i'm deeply invested in these people's silly small-town drama#and gasping out 'mr. moffatt did what??'#also i dearly love when someone i expect to be a bland stereotype turns out to be a character with personality#miss dunstable is my favorite character so far#i fully expected the 'rich heiress that the hero's supposed to marry instead of the poor heroine'#to just be snobby and rude#and instead she's so much fun!#genuine friends with the hero but zero romantic interest in him#very witty very sensible#i'm less than halfway through so i don't know if opinions will change#but for right now i'm glad to have the audiobook to push through the slog chapters#(what was the point of the dinner party scene?? you literally stopped three plotlines dead in their tracks)#(to show a character going to a boring party with characters who have no effect on the story)#because i need to see how this story plays out#doctor thorne#anthony trollope
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