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There are moments of really beautiful thought and insight, particularly in the parts surrounding religion.

But most of this has just been a litany of insufferable people being miserable and insufferable.

The worst is easily Madeline. Even after being warned about what she is doing, she turns and still bloody does it as if she knows better because she studies it in books.

Here be my latest attempt to actually "read the unread books I own," this one being a book I impulsed out of a little free library within the last calendar year, because Jeffrey Eugenides.

And so far, I don't like our main character. And that dislike is casting a negative light on the prose in a way that is kind of insufferable. But is it the prose or the character? Hard to say.