What can I say about this book? My mom strongly recommended it. She said it had a great ending. Also, it won the Nobel Prize for literature. For me, the issue was getting to the ending. It is experimental fiction I would say; no quotes are used when people speak, nor do new paragraphs begin. You have to read it carefully to remember who is speaking. Also, paragraphs can go on forever, action builds slowly and at times it seems like a stream of consciousness. You can almost get caught up between what a character is thinking vs. what they are speaking. Well, eventually I did make it to the end and I agree it is clever and unexpected. Would I recommend this book? Only if you enjoy reading experimental fiction.

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Caught at 2/24/18 Sat. Meet-Up Boston Bookcrossing @ Panera Bread/Porter Square Cambridge--Experimental novel/to be read.

It took awhile to read this. As an experimental writer who tries to omit pronouns, and limited "the" and "that" -- this was interesting. Spoilers/sort of follow. As a reader the book was difficult, I'm not sure if it was the concept or the translation--not trying to lay blame--but commas between sentences without returns it was difficult to read/keep track of which character was speaking. And the other was very specific almost tedious down to who was speaking in a repetitive way but it did not help follow the dialogue. Agree there was a large of stream of consciousness and it was sometimes essential to the narrative/other times not so much. The plot reminded me of The picture of Dorian Gray, plus NY Trilogy by Paul Auster where the main character was inside his apartment/room/closet and a more recent work by Auster an elderly man also/possibly imprisoned in a room/his own mind/rhetorical unknown, etc.
Holding for now.

Released Community Bookcase, cafeteria lower level, One Ashburton Place/McCormack Building Boston, MA 02108 - Sept. 2018

Whoops/is traveling, et al.