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Apr 01, 2009
Bucket
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it was amazing
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Just finished my second reading, and was just as moved by it as I was on first reading about 20 years ago.
Barnes is a masterful writer and has been for decades. I've found his more recent work, though, a bit less fresh and a bit too masterful. It's like perhaps he can do this literary novel thing in his sleep, so he sort of does.
But A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is fresh. It's messy, full of threads that twist back on themselves, divide and duplicate. It's imperfect and a little bit ...more
Barnes is a masterful writer and has been for decades. I've found his more recent work, though, a bit less fresh and a bit too masterful. It's like perhaps he can do this literary novel thing in his sleep, so he sort of does.
But A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is fresh. It's messy, full of threads that twist back on themselves, divide and duplicate. It's imperfect and a little bit ...more
Apr 30, 2012
Heather (DeathByBook)
marked it as to-read
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Ariel
marked it as to-read-overdrive
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Amanda
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Alexis Noffke
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Andrew
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Kathleen (itpdx)
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