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Arukiyomi
Mar 13, 2018 rated it it was ok
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... it passed me by without
the least impact or lasting
effect whatsoever.


My, this was a strange one. Having not read any Beckett before, I really wasn't sure what to expect. Being Beckett though, it seems that, even halfway through, it was typical that I still wasn't sure what to expect.

Murphy (and, I suspect, the rest of Beckett's oeuvre) is for the intellectual and, as such, went completely over my head. I found it a much harder read and more esoteric than  The Third Policeman  or even 
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Nov 12, 2007 marked it as to-read
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