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Sep 13, 2016
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DNF @ p. 254 (almost the halfway mark). Leafing through the rest I concluded this was the right decision, because it only got worse.
Two stars for the beautiful title and the writing. Unfortunately I disliked everything else: the story, the characters, the misogyny, the wordiness, the repetitiveness, the loooong chapters, the annoying number of times that people say something "stikkend van het lachen".
Making it to page 254 proved to be a real slog (many of my favourite books aren't even that long ...more
Two stars for the beautiful title and the writing. Unfortunately I disliked everything else: the story, the characters, the misogyny, the wordiness, the repetitiveness, the loooong chapters, the annoying number of times that people say something "stikkend van het lachen".
Making it to page 254 proved to be a real slog (many of my favourite books aren't even that long ...more
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