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Jason
Jan 22, 2010 rated it it was amazing
This book and others by Vollmann came highly recommended by my dear friend and confidant Natalie Ballard. So, while returning home from Cambodia, I started reading it. What a perfect, absolutely perfect time to read such a novel. It is reminiscent of the time I read "Blood Meridian" for the first time while traveling across the Chinese desert by train. Sometimes, the setting in which you read a book is worth a star in itself.

With that said, "Butterfly Stories" would probably have gotten five sta
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Juliana Philippa
Jun 12, 2010 marked it as to-read