Nana by Emile Zola

2/10

I read this a year ago. I disliked it immensely. Very nearly gave it a 1/10. Can't think of anything at all that I liked about it. The characters were unenjoyable, the storyline reeked, and the writing style wasn't any fun. It was a chore of a book to get through. Apparently, it is Book #9 in a series of 20 books called Les Rougon-Macquart series. I guess the books can be read independently, but characters bleed over throughout the series. So that's pretty cool. But this is one of the more highly regarded of the entire series which does not bode well for my prospects of reading any of the others.