Preeta's review

Preeta's review

Waiting: A Novel Waiting: A Novel
by Ha Jin

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bookshelves: books-for-hedgehogs
recommended for: hedgehogs, sloths, slow lorises

This book did make me feel like I was waiting, so maybe it did what it set out to do. But it wasn't a good kind of waiting. It was the kind of waiting I used to do when I would have to go to some government office with my parents and they would make me sit still and behave myself, and I would feel a terrible physical ache in unmentionable parts of my body from having to contain so much desire to fidget. Actually, that sounds a lot more exciting than this book was.

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message 1: by elizabeth
04/19/2008 07:57PM

77711 slow lorises are SO amazing! sometimes they scurry more quickly than their name suggests though, maybe too quickly for this book.





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message 2: by Charlotte
04/20/2008 08:24AM

77915 did you see that story about a man who beat another man with a hedgehog? I am not making this up. I'm sure I read this book but I don't remember a single thing about it...

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message 3: by Michael
04/20/2008 11:47AM

82103 Funny, I liked the waiting. It wasn't, as the song goes, the hardest part. This was one of those rare books that I loved despite all expectation and/or aesthetic proclivity.

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message 4: by Preeta
04/20/2008 02:24PM

Nophoto-u-25x33 Oh my god, I DID see that story! You're not lying! I wasn't too happy about that story, though; I just don't know if hedgehogs like being wielded as weapons. They're peaceable creatures.

Quite honestly, one of the few things I actually remember about the experience of reading this book is the afore-mentioned crotch ache.

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