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seekingferret) wrote2023-05-12 11:42 am
seekingferret) wrote2023-05-12 11:42 am
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What are your favorite book chapters? My post on the third chapter of Sally Rooney's latest novel had me thinking.
Here's a few of mine:
"Penelope", the 18th and last chapter of Joyce's Ulysses, the one where Molly Bloom monologues without punctuation for dozens of astonishingly insightful pages.
The 36th chapter of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the one where Elizabeth reads and rereads Darcy's letter, each time the letter meaning something different.
The 25th chapter of Bujold's Memory, the one where Miles wrestles with Haroche's bribe and figures out how to trap Haroche.
"Carbon", the last chapter of Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, the one where the elements stop being a literary device and suddenly everything fits together into a worldview.
"Cetology" in Melville's Moby Dick, the one that's a whale biology textbook.
Edit Oh, I forgot to mention "With the Choedan Kal", the last chapter of the 9th book of the Wheel of Time, which pulls together all sorts of strands from earlier books into an incredibly satisfying conclusion that leaves room for forward motion.
Here's a few of mine:
"Penelope", the 18th and last chapter of Joyce's Ulysses, the one where Molly Bloom monologues without punctuation for dozens of astonishingly insightful pages.
The 36th chapter of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the one where Elizabeth reads and rereads Darcy's letter, each time the letter meaning something different.
The 25th chapter of Bujold's Memory, the one where Miles wrestles with Haroche's bribe and figures out how to trap Haroche.
"Carbon", the last chapter of Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, the one where the elements stop being a literary device and suddenly everything fits together into a worldview.
"Cetology" in Melville's Moby Dick, the one that's a whale biology textbook.
Edit Oh, I forgot to mention "With the Choedan Kal", the last chapter of the 9th book of the Wheel of Time, which pulls together all sorts of strands from earlier books into an incredibly satisfying conclusion that leaves room for forward motion.
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