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The writing is stunning...but, man, I feel like so much of it should have been cut.
It's an atmospheric dream of a book with a simmering undercurrent of political unrest flowing below, but it never grabbed me in a way that demanded I finish reading it (which is why I've set it aside and restarted it several times over the past couple of years).
I enjoyed what I actually read much more than what I listened to (I went back and forth between the Kindle and Audible versions)--the reader mispronounced ...more
It's an atmospheric dream of a book with a simmering undercurrent of political unrest flowing below, but it never grabbed me in a way that demanded I finish reading it (which is why I've set it aside and restarted it several times over the past couple of years).
I enjoyed what I actually read much more than what I listened to (I went back and forth between the Kindle and Audible versions)--the reader mispronounced ...more

May 14, 2016
Tracyene
marked it as to-read

Apr 06, 2020
Cheryl Scaccio
marked it as to-read

Jun 23, 2020
Lizzy Siddal (Lizzy’s Literary Life)
marked it as to-read

Sep 04, 2021
superawesomekt
marked it as bibliocurious