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After reading 59 pages and waiting five months for summoning up enough motivation to go on reading (all my Goodreads friends seem to love the book with abandon - so what's wrong with me?), I have decided to finally put a lid on the case and throw the book out of its designated and by this time slightly dusty spot on my nightstand. I had this subconscious fear that maybe I have detoriated and am not able to concentrate on "real" grown-up books anymore. All I seem to enjoy these days are young adu
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Oct 17, 2012
Baroness Ekat
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what a complete waste of my time, and yes, I finished the audio book.
by the third disc I was absolutely tired of every description being a flowery prose of metaphors and similes. Why use just the phrase "the sky was blue" when you could use 20 words to describe it?
By disc 10 I realized I had absolutely no emotions what so ever regarding the main character/narrator (whose name we never do learn). I saw absolutely no growth or redeeming value to him as a person or character. And he was never abl ...more
by the third disc I was absolutely tired of every description being a flowery prose of metaphors and similes. Why use just the phrase "the sky was blue" when you could use 20 words to describe it?
By disc 10 I realized I had absolutely no emotions what so ever regarding the main character/narrator (whose name we never do learn). I saw absolutely no growth or redeeming value to him as a person or character. And he was never abl ...more
Jun 15, 2014
Marie (UK)
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This is a fabulous book which twists together the stories of Marianne Engels and the narrator through the ancient past and into the present. A novel storyline brilliantly written. The narrator is horribly burnt in a road accident. His recovery is far from certain particularly as he seems to want little to do with it until he starts to receive visits form Marianne Engels, a sculptor and a diagnosed schizophrenic with a packed life history. Davidson has written a winner here
Jul 16, 2010
Mandy Hornsby
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