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Rebecca
Aug 29, 2011 rated it liked it
Man- I can't remember the last time it took me this long to get through a book. His writing style is so complicated that every time I pick it back up I have no idea what is going on and have to go back and read the previous pages again.
I did love this one passage though:
"Imagine a pair of woman's lips," Mogor whispered, "puckering for a kiss. That is the city of Florence, narrow at the edges, swelling at the center, with the Arno flowing through between, parting the two lips, the upper and the l
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