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Vigorous prose, a prickly and foreboding atmosphere, and a unique, deliberate protagonist. It's a dark book full of ugly, unpleasant, terrible things, but the rural nature descriptions were so beautifully vivid and so starkly alive, I found it an intense combination. The ending still has me considering.
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harumph. :)
i found this to be a very disjointed read that didn't ever work into a cohesive whole for me. it had a lot of potential, and i loved some of the writing lot, but i just ended up feeling this was just weird - and not in a good way. wild spends a lot of time building up the mysteries, slowly dishing out information. ultimately, though, it really fizzled at the end. so that was quite a shame. wild has an evocative way of writing, the characters and settings were interesting but the flow ...more
i found this to be a very disjointed read that didn't ever work into a cohesive whole for me. it had a lot of potential, and i loved some of the writing lot, but i just ended up feeling this was just weird - and not in a good way. wild spends a lot of time building up the mysteries, slowly dishing out information. ultimately, though, it really fizzled at the end. so that was quite a shame. wild has an evocative way of writing, the characters and settings were interesting but the flow ...more
Definitely not one to read via audiobook. By the time I figured out what was going on, it was too late. I'm still giving this three stars, though, for the pure inventiveness of the storyline. I may pick this up again in hard copy some day.
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Here are the first three sentences of the novel:
"Another sheep, mangled and bled out, her innards not yet crusting and the vapours rising from her like a steamed pudding. Crows, their beaks shining, strutting and rasping, and when I waved my stick they flew to the trees and watched, flaring out their wings, singing, if you could call it that. I shoved my book in Dog’s face to stop him from taking a string of her away with him as a souvenir…"
I tossed the novel at that point. Not for me.
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"Another sheep, mangled and bled out, her innards not yet crusting and the vapours rising from her like a steamed pudding. Crows, their beaks shining, strutting and rasping, and when I waved my stick they flew to the trees and watched, flaring out their wings, singing, if you could call it that. I shoved my book in Dog’s face to stop him from taking a string of her away with him as a souvenir…"
I tossed the novel at that point. Not for me.
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This was not one to do as an audio book. Once I figured out what was going on, it was too late. I might pick up the hard copy later.
Mar 27, 2013
Jayalalita devi dasi
marked it as to-read
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Apr 04, 2014
Susan
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Emilia
marked it as library-to-read
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E.M.
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