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This is the kind of book that it is impossible to say you 'enjoyed'. How can you enjoy reading what is essentially a train crash in the happening? But the book is so powerful, so horrific and so cold that you just can't stop reading it. You have to look impassively at the violence and apparent hopelessness of all of the characters because if you get too emotionally invested in them it just kills you. This book is human depravity and waste at its height. It is so real and so relevant, it gives yo
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I really struggled with this book. I understand that the interconnected stories are representative of a particular time and place; but, I did not identify with or like any of the characters AT ALL! And, as bad as some of them were, the end of their hard lives was just too hard to take...even if the way life sometimes is. The writing style captured the local way of speaking without seeming contrived. I just wish I had found at least one sympathetic character to like.
3.5
Han rører rundt inni meg og det er ikke særlig komfortabelt, men mye er viktig og mye er bra og mye er riktig.
Han rører rundt inni meg og det er ikke særlig komfortabelt, men mye er viktig og mye er bra og mye er riktig.
Nov 27, 2009
Angela Randall
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Marnster
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Wendy Eley
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Nov 05, 2014
David
marked it as want-to-read-novel
May 13, 2015
Erika
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Jun 02, 2016
Katoushka
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Feb 22, 2017
Kristina
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Dec 26, 2017
Katey
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May 05, 2018
Lisa Wilkinson
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Sep 18, 2019
Rebekah
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Dec 21, 2019
Carrie
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