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There are moments of beauty in here. The whole book is a whirllwind, and it's narrated with the breathless enthusiasm of a child at a funfair.
The first time I read this book I was inspired by the travel, the wild, free nights, the jazz.
This time I'm left a bit cold by it. I just want this character to settle down and tend his garden.
— 4 hours, 23 min ago
The first time I read this book I was inspired by the travel, the wild, free nights, the jazz.
This time I'm left a bit cold by it. I just want this character to settle down and tend his garden.
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Andrew Lawrence
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This is a re-read for me and I loved it first time through.
So far not feeling the same joy. It's a fantastic frenetic pace which I like, but it's also just a whirlwind of place names (which mean little to me as a non-American) and transient characters who appear, have a couple of lines of dialogue, and then disappear forever.
It's hard to know who I'm meant to remember or why.
— Apr 20, 2026 01:59AM
So far not feeling the same joy. It's a fantastic frenetic pace which I like, but it's also just a whirlwind of place names (which mean little to me as a non-American) and transient characters who appear, have a couple of lines of dialogue, and then disappear forever.
It's hard to know who I'm meant to remember or why.
