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It’s really angry and has very little heart. I can see how it’s easy to get mawkish with WWII stories, and this avoids that, and I can also see that there is a lot of anger if you grew up in Danzig and watched your city invaded repeatedly. It’s a good book, I can see why it’s a classic but i don’t care enough about the analogy, and I’m not swept up by its cleverness this I’m not enjoying it.

It’s really angry and has very little heart. I can see how it’s easy to get mawkish with WWII stories, and this avoids that, and I can also see that there is a lot of anger if you grew up in Danzig and watched your city invaded repeatedly. It’s a good book, I can see why it’s a classic but i don’t care enough about the analogy, and I’m not swept up by its cleverness this I’m not enjoying it.

It’s really angry and has very little heart. I can see how it’s easy to get mawkish with WWII stories, and this avoids that, and I can also see that there is a lot of anger if you grew up in Danzig and watched your city invaded repeatedly. It’s a good book, I can see why it’s a classic but i don’t care enough about the analogy, and I’m not swept up by its cleverness this I’m not enjoying it.

It’s really angry and has very little heart. I can see how it’s easy to get mawkish with WWII stories, and this avoids that, and I can also see that there is a lot of anger if you grew up in Danzig and watched your city invaded repeatedly. It’s a good book, I can see why it’s a classic but i don’t care enough about the analogy, and I’m not swept up by its cleverness this I’m not enjoying it.

A man has sex with a wooden statue. I’m not sure how this has to do with the allegory of modernity this book is so famous for. This is just weird.

I don’t care about Eels! This had so much potential... I can’t wait to finish this.