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Aug 14, 2016
Marc-Antoine
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it was amazing
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I'm left thinking, if more people read this quality of novel, the world would be a better place. Unfortunately if the world didn't have any ugliness, this type of book wouldn't have been written...
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It's good, but so, so heavy (not that I was expecting anything different). Mostly, it's just the emptiness of any hope that leaves it so depleting. And while I appreciated Morrison's showing the behind the scenes of ALL characters involved, letting us feel sympathy and relating on some level to each of them, I still could NOT work up sympathy for what Cholly did (not a spoiler, since we know from the prologue the ultimate outcome), because seriously, who the hell does that? Vomit-inducing. But,
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