The scrappy go-gettem bildungsroman in the first half was enjoyable, the absurd Antarctic interlude scratched my itch for melancholy whimsy, but the last portion of the book was a slog.
12 research papers—one per chapter—explained in layman’s terms. This was a really interesting way to consume research I would have never touched otherwise.
After being beaten, robbed, conscripted, lost, convicted, etc., Candide begins to understand the world in a different light.
One of the worlds most well-known love stories, set in a painstakingly rendered 15th century Paris