THE DOLL is the most engrossing novel that I've ever been so ambivalent about

Remember yesterday when I wrote about Boleslaw Prus' THE DOLL? Well today I'm 25% of the way through! Yes, I made an absurd amount of progress with this 1000 page Polish realist novel, because it's actually really readable. For the first few chapters, I was like, what am I reading? And then I realized it was a novel about a businessman who's in love wit…