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Corny as hell!!! It's getting a bit too intense just for the sake of it now that I'm getting closer to the end. Characters seems to have been built the following way: think of everything that can be difficult for a kid, put it all in and add a cheesy narrator that gives life advice every two pages and you can pretty much sum up the style of this book that way. Ted is 40 and his back hurts as if he was 80... c'mon man

Sometimes struggling with how dramatic the story is. It's like all the elements are perfectly chosen to be as dramatic as possible (reminds of the movie Moonlight). I think Backman is a little bit redundant with the part about the characters being doomed. I think once was enough, to repeat it each chapter...
Aside from that, loving the story and the pace is great

I feel like I know where this is heading and I love it.
I love Louisa's and Ted's characters at the moment.
Let's keep it going!!!

I literally just started and already noted some quotes I LOVED:

"(...) the entrance is protected by security guards weighing three hundred pounds with zero ounces of humor. They're the sort of guards who have so much muscle that they have muscles that don't even have Latin names, because back when people spoke Latin, idiots as big as this didn't even exist yet."