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| Interesting, but dry as, well, salt. Fact after fact, history tidbit after history tidbit. Kurlansky needed another element to tie the strings of information together and keep his research engaging. | |
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| If someone took what was in my head and put it on paper, it would be this. A poetic little novella rendering depression into mythic art. | |
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| It's like reading The Fresh Prince of Bell Air. If Will was white, the show was actually gay porn, and somehow a murder mystery became involved. Oh, and if the writing was awful. | |
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| There are many things I liked about this book: The complex relationships, the strong personalities, the harsh forms of love that result from these relationships and personalities. But they were overshadowed by what I didn't: The longest, most run-on...more | |
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| Loneliness, loss and parental love. The tear-jerking alliterative combo that this book does so well. I don't even like kids and I still managed to get caught up in this book, so that's saying something. While the topic is one that allows for easy emo...more | |
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