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Wow. I am seriously at a loss for words. I was really looking forward to this book and am sitting here flabbergasted. Just wow. Ok, deep breath, here we go.
As I began to read this book I was instantly confused as hell. Things seemed real but then were not real at all and couldn't be. So I looked up how this book was classified and to my astonishment learned about a new genre I had never heard of called "magical realism". Really? Magical realism? Why yes, it's realistic and magical. To say the le ...more
As I began to read this book I was instantly confused as hell. Things seemed real but then were not real at all and couldn't be. So I looked up how this book was classified and to my astonishment learned about a new genre I had never heard of called "magical realism". Really? Magical realism? Why yes, it's realistic and magical. To say the le ...more
I did not make it very far in this book. I was reading it for a book club which means I will usually read the entire thing even if I hate it, but I couldn't with this. Like I got as far as a grown man wanting to marry a 9-year-old and couldn't do it anymore. I really loved the writing style, but that style was so vivid I could not deal with reading about some of the truly disgusting things that happen in this story.
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