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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle
Germinal is badass
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It is indeed
When I first read it I didn’t realize it’s part of a huge cycle of books
a few years back I read
The Fortune of the Rougons with the intention of trying to make my way through the entire
Les Rougon-Macquart
it’s a real lot to read though and I think I had a hard time finding book two in English obviously at a reasonable price
but yeah Germinal runs at a great clip and had a big influence on my thinking in my early twenties when I read it (I think I was 19 or 20 actually)