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I'm up to chapter three and I'm struggling to keep interested. Baldwin squeezes as much information into every sentence he can with comma handles and semi-colons, and I feel he goes into a lot of detail explaining things that aren't even relevant. I'd like to get through this, so I want to know: what kept YOU reading?
Scott Amundsen It may simply be a question of taste. I have read a lot of Baldwin and to me his prose has a dreamy, poetic quality that is almost like music; wheneve…moreIt may simply be a question of taste. I have read a lot of Baldwin and to me his prose has a dreamy, poetic quality that is almost like music; whenever I have read a Baldwin novel my biggest struggle has always been to put the book down.
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