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Apr 25, 2009
Ashley
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it was amazing
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I didn't really know what to expect from this. I certainly did not expect it to be so heavy. But heavy, indeed, it was. I really enjoyed it though.
Favorite quotes:
He pulled the boy closer. Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and remember what you want to forget.
He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was mor ...more
Favorite quotes:
He pulled the boy closer. Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and remember what you want to forget.
He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was mor ...more
eh. margaret attwood did it better in "oryx and crake"
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It's been a long time since a book has moved me to tears simply through its prose. This is truly a perfect book.
"He'd stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would raise his weeping eyes and see him standing there in the road looking back at him from some unimaginable future, glowing in that waste like a tabernacle." ...more
"He'd stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would raise his weeping eyes and see him standing there in the road looking back at him from some unimaginable future, glowing in that waste like a tabernacle." ...more
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