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Mar 30, 2024
Davenport Public Library Iowa
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If you want to like poetry but can't get into it, this might be a good place start. The language is stunning and Vuong's semi-autobiographical narrative is really engaging. I'm glad I gave this one a try!
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Did not finish. To echo the masses: Beautiful prose with no plot to stand on. I think poetry is Vuong's strongest method of story-telling, not so much the novel.
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The writing, the prose, felt like butter. It was absolutely beautiful to listen to. The audiobook is also read by the author, which is always a treat. There were so many poignant lines that if I had been physically reading it, I would have wanted to annotate the shit out of it, just for the pure delight that was the words on the page.
Where it fell for me was the characters. I really couldn't get a grasp on any of the characters, not even Little Dog himself. It felt like the more I tried to figur ...more
Where it fell for me was the characters. I really couldn't get a grasp on any of the characters, not even Little Dog himself. It felt like the more I tried to figur ...more
beautifully poetic and current, need to really focus on it and think about it all the way through to get it all
Feb 19, 2023
Dori
marked it as to-read
