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I was given this book as a gift. While I found the writing and storytelling style to be extremely charming (2 stars for that!), I read approximately 75% of the book before throwing it away because the promiscuous sex was unrelenting and, honestly, kind of boring. There was not much character development beyond these affaires.
Obviously the aforementioned sexual activity undermines the character's ostensible "faithfulness." (And I can only imagine the STDs... surely he would have died or been blin ...more
Obviously the aforementioned sexual activity undermines the character's ostensible "faithfulness." (And I can only imagine the STDs... surely he would have died or been blin ...more
Nice satire, it made me laugh out loud a couple of times that books have never made me do. Though halfway through I became bored and wished they would either get together or be forgotten. So it gets old really fast and things become so ridiculous it's not even funny anymore.
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Well... He could have easily cut 1/3 of the book... I read the last parts with "Why doesn't this ever end..." in my head. But I loved the ending :-D Unexpected, lovely, made me happy :-)
I suppose they'll do the trip a couple of times and then come home, marry and live happily ever after. Or don't marry. ...more
I suppose they'll do the trip a couple of times and then come home, marry and live happily ever after. Or don't marry. ...more
This literally took me 4 years to read. It is quite laborious in parts. I'd put it down for months then pick it up again and read a few pages. But, all in all, I'm glad I read it and it has several nice love stories, none of which are fairy tale romances.
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