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Nina asked this question about The Noise of Time:
I have really enjoyed Julian Barnes' writing, especially Sense of an Ending, but I am really struggling with his latest. Is anyone else feeling this way? I'm so disappointed but I haven't quite finished it yet - maybe it will come together in the last 50 pages.
Robert Same for me. I quite enjoyed "Arthur & George", but especialle fell in love with "The Sense of an Ending" (it became one of my all-time favourites), b…moreSame for me. I quite enjoyed "Arthur & George", but especialle fell in love with "The Sense of an Ending" (it became one of my all-time favourites), but "The Noise of Time" just didn't get me. Not at all. For me, it was just too much a narration of Shostakovich's life. The language, at times, was as elegant as expected when reading a novel by Barnes, but it was lacking all the rest.(less)
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