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This book exists on its own. By that I mean it's one of the few books I've read that manages to create not only a living, breathing, world, but it also populates that world with characters, from birth until death, and all of them, each of them rather, could fill a novel on their own. Taken together you have a rare masterwork that nearly suffocates with its decadence but finally releases you with its emptiness, that life, no matter how full and glorious and beautiful and maddening, has only one i
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I liked it in the beginning--it was a dark comedy with wacky characters in a wacky town. It only got more twisted and weird, and my enjoyment dropped off as the generations moved on.
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