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Aug 02, 2010
Ibis3
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Everything I've read about this book said it was "sparse". That's a perfect description. It's so sparse it's difficult to figure out who is who and what their relationships are and what exactly is going on. For me, it made reading it seem a little pointless. I couldn't really get emotionally invested. However, I did appreciate the language of it and the kind of surrealism, calling to mind something like One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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Feb 09, 2014
Chinook
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The first third of this book, I had no idea what was going on, except that everyone was rather lonely. Then some stuff happened and it got interesting but then it was over. And it wasn't until the afterward that I even realized that James and Greta weren't married. This is a weird, weird little book.
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