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I have started reading this. I have read one other book by Scott, Waverley, which I thought was a great book. I quite like Walter Scott's style. It is rather dense, but it is almost cinematographic. In the first couple of chapters the protagonist is holding an argument with his stern father. The protagonist does not want to be a merchant like his father. It is sort of like accountancy. The protagonist wants to be a poet. At this point there is no indication where the story is going. We just know the young fellow has a romantic and independent streak. I especially liked the bit where the lad's father found a poem his son has wrote and critiques it. It seemed like quite a reasonable poem to me.
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I have started reading. First I read a fictious letter by the author, purporting to be another author, outlining his reasoning for writing the book. Then I read the introduction. Often I avoid reading the introduction, because they give away spoilers, but this introduction was by Walter Scott himself. He said he did not want to write only Scottish novels, so he was branching out into an English one. He said it was trickier, because the wild men of Scotland were still in living memory, while England had been a civilised country a long time. I am only two chapter in, but, so far, I do not think it is as good as Waverley.
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Today bought "The Antiquary" by Sir Walter Scott. I must admit that I love the plot. Sort of mysterious scottish environment . . . But it's going so slow! I don't understand to language well. It so difficult to "read it through"! @liborsmolik
