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I can't finish. It started out promising. I liked the beginning about the imaginative children and the whale very much. But I cannot abide the whining adults in this book. Even setting it aside for a couple of months to give myself space from it all hasn't helped. I cannot be tortured with several hundred more pages, not even for the temptation of more child whimsy and delight somewhere within its depths.