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This was my first ever and bad experience with stream of consciousness narration, this will likely to have impact on my future experience with stream of consciousness narration (as i am looking forward to read James Joyce "ULYSSES"). It took me a long time to read this novel,I was unable to cope up with this novel because it was tedious reading, unlikable characters, and extreme lack of plot. Are characters' behaviors the result of living in a totalitarian society, or their culture, or their ind
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I'm sick and should be in bed. But I wanted to post quickly about this book. This book was small (only 200pp) but dense. I picked it up as I thought I could knock it over quickly in a few days before we went on holidays in Cairns and I could relax on the beach with a big, thick book. Oh how I was wrong.
Instead, it was like walking through treacle. But surprisingly, not in a bad way. Just sticky. Like walking through mangrove mud, which I fell into the other day and then the pressure of pulling m ...more
Instead, it was like walking through treacle. But surprisingly, not in a bad way. Just sticky. Like walking through mangrove mud, which I fell into the other day and then the pressure of pulling m ...more
Nov 09, 2011
Danielle
marked it as to-read
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Melissa Lindsey
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Feb 14, 2014
Jo Ann
marked it as dnf-try-again-later
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Carol
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Sally
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Feb 06, 2021
Terri Gulyas
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