My Magnificent 7 to be gotten in only 5 days

I love the look of this, like an album you'd find in a beatnik's pad in the mid 50s

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1st of 3 long volumes

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The most scandalous gothic novel ... i will be getting Melmoth the Wanderer too soon.

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This is gonna be the Hardcore Literature's October spooky read, and it surely is prose chocalate goodness!!

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2 of Wilkie Collins great 1860 novels that i didn't know about since a few months ago, i want to experience these 2 before enjoying his 2 other more well known ones.

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And this Lermontov fella i just gots to get hip to his wonderful hit

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Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

I once had Samuel Pepys' Diary. I don't know why. I had no intention of reading it. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

SW-User

@Jacko1971 It's a great time capsule kind of thing, but low on the entertainment .....:)

Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@SW-User I would imagine the language is a bit archaic.

SW-User

@Jacko1971 Not as much as Shakespeare, from what I've listened so far in the audiobook it's like humdrum activities, he plays some cards before coming back home, and reads by the fire before going to bed.

Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@SW-User it's a good reflection of domestic life at the time. He watched the Great Fire from his window.

Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

I agree about Shakespeare but it's different. Shakespeare is a play. It's supposed to be performed. It doesn't work any other way.

SW-User

@Jacko1971 Yes. This diary should be spent time on for me come to think of it, as it's from around the same time as the Puritans which for me is a big thing at the moment. Puritan's language is antiquated too, perhaps much more than Sam.