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I really tried, but istening to this book is impossible. I want to appreciate the voices, the story, but I can't get past the format. Like wading through footnotes. Is it possible to ignore the format when you READ it? About to throw in the towel and get a refund.

Lesley I read it and did find the format annoying, like reading a play, in particular the quotations from books (real and fictional) are hard to distinguish …moreI read it and did find the format annoying, like reading a play, in particular the quotations from books (real and fictional) are hard to distinguish but Saunders is doing something different here and creating something that is not quite prose as we know it. It is worth reading, I don't know about listening to it.(less)

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