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I don't have the right words to describe the deep, richness in this book. It's one of those that will go down in history as one of the most well-told stories ever. Mandel is a master at weaving in and out and in between characters and perspective. I can't recommend this book enough.
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The caption on the book says: 'Disturbing, inventive and exciting' This it is not. It is however a sequence of loosely connected events that are beautifully described. Personally; I found the elegant prose did not counter the clunky dialogue. As Dystopian novels go it did not really bring anything new to the table. Cormac McCarthy's 'On the road' was much more sparse on the descriptive detail but for me it was so much more resonant on a personal level. In terms of the characterisation within Sta
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I didn't get that far into this book but I disliked it too much to waste any more time on it. I didn't care about any of the numerous flat characters, some of whom aren't even given names and are referred to by things like "the seventh guitar." I didn't understand why they either didn't bother rebuilding so many things or how they were so remarkably unsuccessful at it. The way characters acted made little sense to me and overall I thought this book was just really boring.
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beautiful.
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