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"My basic problem with this novel was that it read like bad historical fiction, set in the present day, with its forced supernumerary details of U2, ipods and nike sneakers. I did not find the teenage narrator to be very convincing -- it sounded ex..."
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I loved Last Light of the Sun, A Song for Arbonne, and Tigana, but man, I really really really didn't like Ysabel. There are two main reasons why Ysabel is nowhere near as good as these other books. 1. It is meant for kids. The main character is a te ...more |
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"You have no idea how much it pains me to dislike a book that Oliver Sacks hails as brilliant, but dear god, I found this tepid, unproven, and faintly ridiculous in turn. Lehrer never actually proves his thesis - that artists of several kinds antic..."
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