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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.
Ergun Coruh Same for me. Certainly it got better and better and I liked the book in the end, but I struggled immersing myself in it in the first half. Also it did…moreSame for me. Certainly it got better and better and I liked the book in the end, but I struggled immersing myself in it in the first half. Also it didn't feel like I was reading a novel, it was more of a biography. Not knowing which bits are fake and which are real made me a bit uncomfortable. The book is a fascinating account of an artist's survival in Stalin's Soviet Russia. I thoroughly recommend listening Shostakovich's 5th symphony in the background. (less)
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