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I have no explanation for my deep love of this novel. It's hokey and ridiculous and overwrought and leaves bushels of interesting themes all over the place, unassembled. It's hopelessly dated. I love it. I connect with these very implausible characters. I revere this author for writing with such careless abandon of form or plot and who still keeps me riveted. This may have been my fourth or fifth reading of this particular novel. It's one of my security-blanket books.
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I was expecting an old-style, kind of bland science fiction novel, but this feels very modern. It's trippy and weird in style, structure, and theme. This is one of those books best read without any foreknowledge, so I'll leave it at that.
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Dec 15, 2012
Genia Lukin
rated it
it was amazing
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Dec 22, 2017
Nadine in California
marked it as to-read
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Apr 14, 2019
Lauren
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it was amazing
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