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Lara
Sep 18, 2012 rated it did not like it
I didn't finish this so I probably shouldn't write a review but I feel like I have a perspective to offer anyone considering reading it. I love Sophie's Choice and Styron is a great writer. He effectively captures how deranged Turner is but reading a non-stop interior monologue of a deranged killer punctuated by long bible passages is punishing. I felt claustrophobic being in his head and frankly, bored after 150 pages. So I stopped reading. ...more
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