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Jessica
May 04, 2008 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
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The author was a distant relative of the family, so I got designated to be the one member of the family to actually finish it. It's billed as a Great American Novel, and that pretty much says it all - it's chock-full of all the self-important blowhardiness, vaguely drug-addled descriptive passages, and somnia-inducing length you'd expect. Not my style at all. ...more
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Jun 01, 2010 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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