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I read to page 150 and I really was not getting into this.
I really, really wanted to like this book - it was a gift from Jenn, and the last book she bought me that was far outside of my usual interests was the Golem and the Jinni, which I loved. However... this was long, and the characters and story weren't great, and there was some insipid maleness in it that was icky. So sad to give it such a low rating, but I really didn't like it and probably wouldn't have finished it in other circumstances.
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I only got to the point when Quentin starts settling into school. That was enough dreck for me. I wanted to love this book so much--Harry Potter for grown-ups? Yes, please, sign me up! This is such a poorly written work though. Maybe if I continued to power through, I'd become so enchanted by the plot that I wouldn't care? But.I.Could.Not.Do.It. Grossman overly describes every detail, which would be fine if the language was beautiful and created vivid images, but because the prose was so pedestr
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Couldn't finish, got halfway through, got tired of reading about magic spells that went nowhere.
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it's over. i thought it wouldn't end. it was like a curse. meaningless drivel.
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It's not a bad book, I just wanted to like it more than I did.
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