Title: Probably Not Worth It
Product review: This is a difficult book to read, and I wonder if it's worth it. Written largely as stream of consciousness, with bits of narration thrown in to tie the story together, it is very hard to follow. Adding to the difficulty are freely impressionistic and allegorical elements that have highly ambiguous links to the story, and feel instead like the author's own stream of consciousness. The effect is an impressionistic portrait of Berlin in the late 20's. At it's best moments this portrait is vivid and compelling, but these only comprise about 50 of the book's 630 pages. The rest is torture.
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