The thirty-third book: #33 Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
I just can't get this book. The writing feels pompous - overly complicated, not ironically, but because the author seems to think he feels smarter that way. It made for a story that I couldn't follow for the most part and lost interest in. It bounced around a lot anyway - there's a large Clarissa-like section with the story about this woman and the men who pursued her, but it felt a bit out of place.
Fanny Hill shows these can be easier to follow, Monkey: Journey to the West shows that these stories can be more intriguing. Here, however, it doesn't hold together. It's probably still an age thing - the book is too far removed from me, making it that difficult to penetrate, but I don't think the characters doesn't work as well: we'll see this with the upcoming comics write up as well, but it shows up here as well.
I wish I had more to say... it just doesn't work here.