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I'm grateful to Mariah for commenting on this vanished review. I had no idea that it was gone.
I will attempt, through the group read, to reconstruct the earlier review.
***UPDATE***17 April 2017
I read this story 14 years ago, and the review I wrote then was testy because I was too often and too deeply reminded of Forrest Gump as I read it. I ***LOATHE*** every single frame of that film, including the titles, the union notices, and the copyright information. It is sappy. It is m ...more
I'm grateful to Mariah for commenting on this vanished review. I had no idea that it was gone.
I will attempt, through the group read, to reconstruct the earlier review.
***UPDATE***17 April 2017
I read this story 14 years ago, and the review I wrote then was testy because I was too often and too deeply reminded of Forrest Gump as I read it. I ***LOATHE*** every single frame of that film, including the titles, the union notices, and the copyright information. It is sappy. It is m ...more
I just finished rereading this book for an upcoming book club meeting. After recently reading a book by Temple Grandin an extremely high functioning autistic person I find it even more amazing that Mark Haddon was able to write a book in the person of Christopher. I definitely appreciated this book more than I did on the first reading
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