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I think I was supposed to like the style. Found it pretentious and off putting instead. My bad.
It was weird and creepy and I just didn't get it.
Maybe I'm thinking too much about what the novel has to say and not enough about the novel as a form. The length is short and the language is *amazing*. It's just that I need some sort of plot or story to make a book feel like a book. This seemed more like an exercise in creative writing class than a novella I wanted to read.
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It was weird and creepy and I just didn't get it.
Maybe I'm thinking too much about what the novel has to say and not enough about the novel as a form. The length is short and the language is *amazing*. It's just that I need some sort of plot or story to make a book feel like a book. This seemed more like an exercise in creative writing class than a novella I wanted to read.
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Dec 28, 2008
Jennifer
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