Well, you have to agree, it’s a bit crap isn’t it?

That was the only book in that sort of ilk that I liked. You can have your Pride and Prejudice, blegh.

To be honest, I never liked any of that ilk. Ponderous, pointless, over-wrought doorstops. They made Tolstoy read like “Tokyo Drift”.

Give me some Thomas Hardy. I don’t know whether it’s because the writing was so great or because my grad school girlfriend writing her thesis on Hardy back in the day was so f’n hot, but I like me some Thomas Hardy.

I may have been suffering from erotolepsy:

Erotolepsy is a term first used by English author Thomas Hardy in his 1895 novel Jude the Obscure to describe a passionate sensual desire and longing which is more violent and urgently felt than erotomania. It has been variously described as “love-seizure” and “sexual recklessness"

Yep, sounds awfully familiar.

Actually, I do love Thomas Hardy, quite a bit. I don’t put him in that class, somehow.