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Sep 23, 2013
Nadine in NY Jones
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I got to some passage about the streets flowing with semen, and I was done. I'm not one of those readers who digs allegory and stylized whatever. If you liked Ballard, you'll like this. Just not for me.
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Abandoning with 30 hours left to read. I just don't care enough. I'm not sure if I'd do any better with the paper or ebook - I can kind of almost see that it will eventually get somewhere I might find interesting? But I'm not prepared to stick around long enough to find out. Not this year. Not this pandemic.
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A completely immersive novel about life in London in the 1850's. Told from multiple perspectives but mainly about Sugar a teenaged prostitute. Extremely detailed and realistic.
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Aug 19, 2008
Arianna
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really liked it
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Dear Reader,
My father passed this book on to me years ago (I think it was at least two apartments ago, maybe more) and I have been meaning to read it, but because of its sheer size I kept putting it aside in lieu of other things. I finally decided it was a good time to tackle a longer book, and I was eager to read this one (besides that I'd been staring at it on my shelves for so long and was intrigued!) because I try stagger my reading so that I am engaging with books from differe ...more
Dear Reader,
My father passed this book on to me years ago (I think it was at least two apartments ago, maybe more) and I have been meaning to read it, but because of its sheer size I kept putting it aside in lieu of other things. I finally decided it was a good time to tackle a longer book, and I was eager to read this one (besides that I'd been staring at it on my shelves for so long and was intrigued!) because I try stagger my reading so that I am engaging with books from differe ...more
Can I just give big ups to a book set in the 19th century and dealing with sex that only uses the deplorable word "cunny" once? That's all I have to say on this topic.
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One of the few novels I have returned to and re-read.
Aug 28, 2015
Ashley
marked it as to-read
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fiction-novels-plays-stories,
fun
Nov 15, 2016
Elizabeth
marked it as to-read
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Shelves:
postmodern-victorians
