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Vicky
Quite engaging, self-conscious, meditating, anxious. I did not feel very good while reading this novel. I kept thinking of how the narrator reminded me of two people I know as well as myself, and I didn't like that. But I did enjoy some parts a lot.

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"I was one of those savage marauders who, not knowing how to express their love, mistakenly kill the persons they love." (93)

"When a boy of fourteen or fifteen discovers that he is more given to introspection and consciousness of self than ot
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