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Believe it or not, I had to stop reading this last night. I just need a break from it for a while. (I made it to page 270, so I only have around 40 or so pages left.)
It's not that I don't like the book. I think I couldn't finish it for a few reasons:
1) Probably the main reason -- I've been very stressed lately due to deadlines at work and numerous other reasons, so I think my concentration level is very short right now.
2) Although I know that this is considered one of the best books ever writte ...more
It's not that I don't like the book. I think I couldn't finish it for a few reasons:
1) Probably the main reason -- I've been very stressed lately due to deadlines at work and numerous other reasons, so I think my concentration level is very short right now.
2) Although I know that this is considered one of the best books ever writte ...more
SOME QUICK THOUGHTS:
I just finished it and I am torn between being glad this book exists, to raise awareness against totalitarian regimes and political manipulation, and how bad it was. As a novel.
The characters terrible. Couldn't care about them at all.
No plot at all.
Intellectual and overanalytical, it would have made a wonderful collection of essays. On so many subjects.
But from the point of view of the novel, I expected that piece of heart that filters everything and gives it meaning. Nope, n ...more
I just finished it and I am torn between being glad this book exists, to raise awareness against totalitarian regimes and political manipulation, and how bad it was. As a novel.
The characters terrible. Couldn't care about them at all.
No plot at all.
Intellectual and overanalytical, it would have made a wonderful collection of essays. On so many subjects.
But from the point of view of the novel, I expected that piece of heart that filters everything and gives it meaning. Nope, n ...more
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