A bunch of my friends joined me in my quest to finally finish The Moonstone and they’re grumbling through each and every page of it. (I should say that my significant other is not grumbling, she’s actually enjoying the book. Odd woman.)
In an effort to encourage them, I mentioned that I really enjoyed pages 403-405 of my version… unfortunately none of them have the same version that I have! So I guess my encouragement isn’t working all that well.
If you own The Moonstone or have a library copy around, could you open it to page 403 and tell me what it says? Just the first line… mine says:
eighty years of age- never mind exactly where!
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Page 403 “what I had heard myself from the lawyer’s own lips – and what is already familiar to the readers of these pages.”
Epilogue ends on page 482.
And yes I’m grumbling my way through it. And I’d be grumbling about it being someone’s stupid idea to read this during the summer if it hadn’t been my own darned idea.
ok you’ve got 482, I only had 472 – so maybe somewhere around 405 you’ll get to the good part?
Heh, it was your idea, wasn’t it?
Your page 403 is the bottom of page 411 and top of page 412 in my book.
And yes, it was my own bloody idea. Although I ought to blame you for putting it on your 101 things list. 😉
Heh, see you are almost done! Who will be next to finish? TW, probably. Em next? Anyone else reading The Moonstone? Anyone brave enough????
I loved those two pages. I love Betteredge. Collins should have written an entire book about him.
My page 403….
“…took up the carpet last year, Mr. Jennings, we found a surprising quantity of pins. Am I responsible for putting back the pins?”
My copy has 472 pages
I’m donnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeee.
Heh Katie, that’s not quite the beginning of the part I fund amusing enough to make up for the rest of the book but it is in the middle of it. Pins, hehe. Put back the pins! I love it
Yea Monkey! She’s finished!
Done! And I don’t see why you considered this book such a chore. I enjoyed it. No, it’s not a “quickie” to read, but must they all be? I liked the story, knowing all the way through that there was a predictable path it must follow. I enjoyed the characters, though some were so boldly cicaraturistic. I enjoyed the Vitorian setting, though it reads a bit slower than a modern novel. And I loved that this book must surely have been the seed that sprouted so many treatments, in literature and film, of the stolen, sacred stone storyline.
What do you not like about the book?
And my edition, as you know, is the same as ms. monkey’s. I do join you in celebrating buzzards and broken-winged cupids, which brought some comic relief!
c-a-r-i-c-a-t-u-r-i-s-t-i-c
Hrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmph!
Finally, finally finished this book since I had little time for reading this week, and this wasn’t a skimable book. Okay, the buzzard was funny, Mr. B was adorable, but I’m not sure it was worth all 472 pages. Oh, and I really liked Miss Clack, planting her tracts all over the place.
One question, remember the little boy who was with the Indians? Was he mentioned again later (well after the moonstone was stolen)and I missed it?
Little boy with the Indians. I always kind of thought the little boy who tracked the Indians and Godfrey at the end was the same boy. But if he was, it wasn’t clear.