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What Members Thought

spoko
May 14, 2013 rated it it was ok
Shelves: fiction, humor
I'm not actually going to finish it. I'm about halfway through (Chapter 21), and I wanted to stick it out, because there are things I like about the book. But I'm enjoying it less and less, and I don't think it's going to redeem itself.

My chief complaint is that the humor is wearing thin. Heller keeps leaning on the same kinds of jokes--twisted, circuitous dialogue that ends in frustration and misunderstanding all around. It's funny at first, but the effectiveness of the technique is more and mo ...more
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Jayme Pendergraft
Feb 15, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 1001
Isabel
May 31, 2007 rated it really liked it
Shelves: war
diane
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Dana
Sep 13, 2007 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favorites, classic, fiction, war
Marcia
Sep 17, 2007 rated it really liked it
Nik
Mar 23, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Pamela
Apr 05, 2011 marked it as to-read
Leslie
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Andrei Rybin
Mar 04, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: american-lit, favorites
superawesomekt
Mar 09, 2012 marked it as tbr-myshelf
Shelves: ehrtbm-challenge
Kai Coates
Jun 09, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Melissa
Feb 28, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: classics
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J
Apr 25, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
withpins
Feb 05, 2017 marked it as to-read
Grace
Jun 07, 2017 rated it liked it
Leslie
Oct 31, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: litsyclassics
Mychal V
May 17, 2018 marked it as to-read
Liz
Feb 04, 2019 rated it liked it
Laurel
Apr 28, 2019 marked it as to-read
Susan
Dec 02, 2019 marked it as banned-books-to-read
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Saba A
May 25, 2022 rated it it was amazing
Min
May 02, 2020 rated it liked it
Monica W.
Jul 09, 2020 marked it as to-read
Caitlin
Mar 18, 2022 rated it it was amazing
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