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I was so annoyed with this book that it actually turned me off to even watching the movie again! The constant interruptions to the story were incredibly irritating, I found his constant narrative about his own personal life to be both intrusive and annoying, and then (view spoiler) I didn't find it funny or creative at all! I was s
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It's kind of hard to review this book after seeing the movie, one of my favorites, so many times! The book was quite interesting in the way he narrated it like he was actually abridging a book written by a man from the actual country of Florin, and the real and imaginary were so interwoven that it was kind of surreal. All the same scenes were there as in the movie, though some appear to have been modified slightly for the movie. But overall it was very close, as would be expected since Goldman a
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