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What is this? Forces collide as if the third act of an opera by Giuseppe Verdi and yet I am barely past the halfway point (if one counts by the printed pages, ignoring the blank endpages which no one reads for there's nothing there, although Goodreads includes them in the page count). Is it a faked climax or an embarrassment of form? I can barely stand waiting to see what the next two dozen weeks will bring!
— Apr 17, 2020 07:47PM
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That same afternoon, he came across a guide book to Switzerland at a second-hand shop, distracting him from further reading. He noticed also that he could no longer recall the source of his frustration with the book here under review.
— Sep 14, 2022 10:14PM
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He discovered that the abundance of clingfilm is, indeed, explained.
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At some point, he set the book aside. He'd remember it and then he'd forget it again. He blamed busyness, he blamed the pandemic. The truth of the matter was that while he remained willing to uphold Roy Orbison in Clingfilm as ranking alongside Letters to Wendy's as being among the greatest works of literature in the English language, he had just grown bored. Some plot device had set him off and he wandered away.
— Sep 14, 2022 10:08PM
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Apr 20, 2020 08:11AM
I have a terrible confession to make.
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I started reading the novel on Friday and I have not been abiding by the chapter-a-week rules
So I have somehow gotten further than you in the novel.
This has been weighing upon me for some time.
But now, I notice the 'reading for the second time' aspect to your post.
You see where I am going with this.
I don't know how that "second time" thing got there. I also don't know why some of my updates posted three or four times. I don't know much about much, really, but I know one thing: This ain't a confessional and I ain't Father Freakin' O'Ryan. And yeah, that's two things. Not sure what I can do about that.
perhaps the latter is implied by the former. but don't get snippy or I shall be forced to spoil important plot elements for you
