Books about people I despise

[ailbhe]

I've just finished reading Queen Lucia by somebodyorother, and it took until over 3/4 of the way through before I found myself going from despising everyone in it to finding on or two characters bearable. Quite a lot of it would have been funny if there had been a likable character.

Easy to read, though, which was useful while I was ill.

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but have you tried the tale of photinus, the greek?

- completely self-centered, totally amoral, ever-prepared to demonstrate to a suck^W naive and well-intentioned that there are no gods to punish those who cynically exploit the credulous in his quest to make as large a profit as possible out of any and all circumstances, and leaving a trail of inevitable chaos and destruction in his wake, he ought to be utterly unsympathetic...

- and yet he ends up fascinating, and sometimes suspecting he may've achieved more of the gods' will, than he realises - no, perish the thought! - there are no gods!