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Trying to force myself through this pointless mundanity again...

This book is bizarrely tedious. Ray's writing is deft, but it all feels too twee to be taken seriously and too earnest to be amusing.

This book feels...silly. And not in a fun way, but in a time-wasted way. I can't deny that Jean Ray is an excellent writer, with an amazing grasp for language -- and the translator did a marvelous job rendering that into English. But at the same time, much of this book feels pointless. I read three chapters on a plane ride and realized most of the time was unnecessarily spent on descriptions of items.