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At Chapter 4 - This is looking like it’ll be a DNF for me. The purple prose is getting in the way of itself and the story she’s trying to tell is drowning in it. I love beautiful writing - Marilynne Robinson for instance - but this doesn’t feel natural, it feels forced.
— Sep 15, 2026 06:37PM
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