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This is obviously a great book, Nobel Prize, work of genius, all time best, blah blah blah. It also took me two full summer months to read, so I can kind of can never forgive it for that. Honestly it was too great to put down (I tried) and too hard to simply enjoy (I tried that too). Great as it may be, it does just go on and on, I mean, you have to admit that; pages and pages and generations and generations, on and on (and on and on). Cycles and repetitions, we get it. Anyway, in the end I can
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Beautiful story, but...I wasn't in love with it as I know others have been. Perhaps that was because I had to spread it out over a long period of time, and read intermittently between schoolwork. But it was well-written; I was often frustrated by the closeness of names, though, and of stories referred to that I'd already forgotten or confused. I might have to read this one more than once to tease out the true meaning.
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Maybe I should have read this as part of a college literature class, with guided and deep conversations... because not only did i not "get"it, I don't care to get it. Ouch.
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