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Daisy
From paragraph to paragraph I'd go from exasperated to bored to interested. I don't know--I did finish it.

... says Curry in the 1017-page Conceit of a Unicorn (1901). "It is a capital error in the art of detection to insert one's own voice into the ungoverned words of another. The more one speaks, the less one hears."

Even if she didn't have the guts to say it to me outright (so few people had the guts to really say things), it made me feel less anxious, as if I understood her a little.
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Jacky
May 06, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Page turner that was easy to get involved in. I felt slighted by then ending though.
Juliane
This book is so different from a "normal" book!
I really recommend it!
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Lisa of Hopewell
Oh my God! Answers already....
Lara
Mar 12, 2008 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Sep 23, 2016 rated it it was ok
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Kara
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