Title: Not worth the effort
Review: The reviews that laud the authors writing ability are fair, but I'm left feeling this technical effort was a stunt with no purpose. The story covers a large span of time using language authentic to those times. Making the writing authentic to the times, comes only at the cost of making the reading difficult. Nothing additional is conveyed in the writing styles. Just the opposite, it leaves the reader to interpret the language.The linkages between the various characters through time, added nothing to the total story. Many of the individual stories where slow and of uninteresting consequence. At the end the story only conveys a trivial message, not made more interesting by the laborious stories.Overall, I feel misled by the other reviews. I believe they are fairly praising the authors skill, but over praising the result. Just because something is difficult to make, does not make it good.This is one of the few books, that may benefit from being edited down to a 2 hour screen play.
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