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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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An indisputably great book that happens to bore me stiff. Where is the unreliable narrator? Where are the linguistic pyrotechnics? I CANNOT WORK UNDER THESE CONDITIONS.
Jumping timelines can improve a book, especially without the use of flashbacks.
