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Ok, so, I plowed through it. The place, Hiddensee, is both real and a sort of a metaphor I guess. Maguire sure likes to show off his erudition, vocabulary, and purple prose... to the point where I didn't always understand exactly what was going on. I wish I could've cared more about Dirk, but I just didn't. The story got interesting to me when he got old and we caught up to Hoffmann's events; before that it was pretty boring to me. And the end is rather abrupt with plenty of loose threads. It co
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Jun 22, 2020
Misty
marked it as to-read
