Candide (Dover Thrift)

There are a lot of good lessons here but they become repetitious by the end.

Ransacking, murder, sheep, inquisitors, venereal disease, rape and ravishment, evil religion, world discovery, fatalism, eldorado, the best of all juxtapositions, cross-dressing, half a buttock because of an especially clumsy magician and making your garden grow. Such a grand romp!

Wow. What a random read. This book was so chaotic but it fits its purpose: To say "Really!! REALLY!! This is the best possible world God could have created!?! Are you serious!!!!!!"

A very funny, violent, vulgar, in-your-face satire on the philosophy of optimism which I appreciated much more as an adult than I did way back in High School. Quick read and laugh out loud hilarious at times.