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What Members Thought
This was a REALLY long book, and I am really glad that I am finally done with it. It wasn't a bad book, but no book needs to be THIS long. The last 20% of the book was fantastic, a five star read. The rest of the book dragged.
This book is a long series of well thought-out, well-written, and mildly interesting vignettes involving complex and distinctive characters that I don't particularly give a crap about (with the exception of Childermass - I did like him - or maybe I just liked the accent the ...more
This book is a long series of well thought-out, well-written, and mildly interesting vignettes involving complex and distinctive characters that I don't particularly give a crap about (with the exception of Childermass - I did like him - or maybe I just liked the accent the ...more
I really wanted to like this book but found the author's writing style off putting. I felt the story just went on and on and on. Over 800 pages of blah, blah, blah, ugh!
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Excellent, excellent novel! Such a great (and long!) read. And it was her first novel? Astonishing to say the least. Very much recommended.
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