J.l. Mcgrath
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Am I the ONLY ONE who finds the narrator incredibly irritating and pretentious? I'm in the middle of the book and will keep reading but I can't believe no one else says this.
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Emily
You're not alone!
Goodness gracious. This is not a story but an unbearable self-analysis and navel-gazing. Poor Jeffers having to listen to all this.
I fought my way to page 124 but it just bores me. A bad buy.
Goodness gracious. This is not a story but an unbearable self-analysis and navel-gazing. Poor Jeffers having to listen to all this.
I fought my way to page 124 but it just bores me. A bad buy.
Bernadette
You’re not the only one. I ploughed on through but I was very happy to finish. There were some beautiful passages about nature, but whenever people were involved the writing became far too convoluted and pretentious for my taste.
Susanne
Same here. Am reading it for my reading group, and I can‘t stand this self-cantered narrator.
Carol Dales
After several abortive attempts, returning to library unread...
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