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Not sure I'm seeing just why this book is the most amazing thing ever.

Finished.

Make that page 143

Finished!

Some of the final chapters weren't quite up to the standard of some of the other chapters but, overall, a brilliant book. I was, in fact, moved to see what beat it for the 1984 Booker. Anita Brookner's "Hotel du Lac," as it happens which was also an excellent book. But I think I would have given it to "Flaubert's Parrot." It was utterly fabu.

And completely *loving* this book.
I confess that Flaubert's Parrot still seems like a cross between a not necessarily accurate or reliable biography of M. Flaubert and a notebook from a perhaps half-mad writer, and, I usually do read for plot and character and I'm not so much getting those here but I also read for delight in language and that's here. In spades.