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This is a tough one. First, it must be a fairly short book (I downloaded to my Reader and finished it in a few hours). Second, hmpf. Not sure how to rate or what to say - definitely a page-turner, and well-written, but I'm surprised at all the accolades, I guess. The reader must accept a HUGE coincidence/unlikely event, then it falls into place. Sort of. Anyway, the plot is a bit of a mess, but Goolrick does a great job of presenting time and place, and Catherine is a character you'll often want
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Utterly, utterly bleak. I (barely) managed 85 pages before I gave up: it's cold, it's dark, people apparently go mad a lot in the town (probably because they spend so much time standing around on the train platform waiting and waiting and waiting - for 25 pages - for it to arrive, but I don't even care about reading enough to find out if Goolrick ever explains why), Ralph Truitt is eye-rollingly obsessed with sex, and why should I even care about Catherine (if that's her real name; I don't care
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Beautifully written. I still have 100 pages to go but I've been reading mostly non-stop all day.
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I wasn't exactly sure where the author was going with this, but I ended up liking it.
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Feb 24, 2010
Anna
marked it as to-read
