[Pamela], by Samuel Richardson

This one makes #132 for me.

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I really liked the beginning of the book, it was very intriguing. Since it's written in the form of letters from a young girl to her parents, sometimes with many days passing between them, whenever I finished a letter I had to rush to the next, to find out what had happened to the girl.
But the, the resolution of the story comes at the beginning to the first third of the book! It spends the next third going on about how wonderful everything is, and the last third is like a phone call between a teenage girl and her boyfriend: You are sooo wonderful! No, no! YOU are the wonderful one!.

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I don't care about the list. I' not reading Clarissa anytime soon.

I don't believe it's on the 1001 list, but if that's how you felt about Pamela, you should read Henry Fielding's Shamela - which is exactly what it sounds like - a parody of Pamela written shortly after it came out.

Thanks, philosojerk, I'll try to find it, though I don't think it's gonna be easy. The e-book is not available (at least, not in Project Gutenberg), and somehow I don't think that's the kind of book you find easily on Spanish bookstores...

Henry Fielding is a very famous author in his own right. I doubt you'd have too much trouble finding this if you are willing to go to the internet.

I got it! I found the ebook, at last, and I'm going to start it as soon as I finish American Gods.
I know Fielding is very famous, and it would be quite easy to find his Tom Jones, but other less known works are scarce.

Ugh Pamela is depressing in my opinion, and I had to stop reading Clarissa due to annoyance and the contant threat of forced sexual submissiveness which runs throughout these books. Give me Austen any day.