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Okay, I'm still reading this book and I probably will continue to read it for another few weeks. It is dense. There is just so much packed into each sentence that I find myself reading and rereading passages to make sure that I can keep up with all the acronyms and in-world inventions that Wallace keeps introducing. This is easily the most challenging book that I've read in years, which is a good thing. I like a challenge.
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Mind blowing. Rapidly becoming a title I thought I would never bestow on a single work: MFBOAT (my favorite book of all time). Only downfall, as a friend says, "Makes my fingers fall off," i.e. I never want to write again.
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fascinating, but I just couldn't shake the feeling that this one long exercise In the author trying to prove to you how smart he was. Sure you're smart, but come on, just tell the freakin story!!!.
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