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Review title: Extremely disappointed
Product review: I'd read some reviews before reading this "novel", and I thought I was prepared for the sparse style Duras employed, but that did not turn out to be the case; I found her writing style annoying and distracting. It was like reading some rough draft that was never intended to be read by anyone else other than the author herself. It did not draw me in at all, and I found myself skimming and glossing over a lot of what she wrote. To me, this book could barely even be called a novel; it was more like a sketch than a portrait. It's rare to enjoy a movie more than a book, but in this case I much preferred the film "The Lover" to the book, "The North China Lover". (The book did seem to pick up steam and had a more "novel-like" tone after around 100 pages or so, and from that point on I did enjoy it. But overall this book was very disappointing for me.)
