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Although there were times at the beginning of this book when I would happily have thrown in the towel and abandonned it, I perservered and in the end quite enjoyed the later half. It is not the style of book I would normally choose to read but I feel good that I did in deed read this book as part of a group book read for November. On the whole I found the language too complicated and as if the author had swallowed a dictionary, and too philosophical. I would however, still recommend this book to
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel that utilizes dual narrators: a precocious girl and an autodidactic concierge who live in a Parisian apartment where things are not what they appear to be. It sounds ridiculously pretentious, and it is. I could totally see this on the reclaimed wood shelves of your local pour-over coffee shop, right between the beyond fair trade artisan roasted coffee and the moleskine notebooks (actually, cool coffee shops don't sell books as much as they sell cold brew c
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Very well written
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