realized i never removed this from my currently reading. FUCK THIS SHIT. how does this man make spontaneous human combustion fucking boring. out of the 20 some odd people i know who read this, you know how many liked it? 0. not one. zelch. zip. nada. part of me wanted to throw this in the bin while i was reading it, and then again after i was done. but i really like oxford world classics editions. even though this one is pretty shite. and bonus points for being a fmc. but negative points for seduction and epistolary novel tropes. fuck that. and fuck charles brockden brown. no disrespect to the dead, but i would spit on his grave for making me read this rubbish.