he literally told me that his brain works too fast for him to read translated books

I just finished rereading Howl’s Moving Castle and now I’m torn between tracking down Michelle McNamara’s book on the Golden State Killer or finishing the Phantom of the Opera. Tbh I really want to finish Phantom because my insufferable coworker who thinks he’s the smartest person in the world (he’s wrong ) couldn’t get through it and blamed it on it being translated from French (no no you’re totally right it’s the translation’s fault and not the fact that you aren’t nearly as smart as you think you are) and if I finish it I can be like