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Review title: Pretentious and Tedious
Product review: I'm reading this book for one of my book clubs and am about 70 pages in so far. It's been a dreadful experience thus far and I'm thoroughly discouraged by the other reviews I've read here that loved the first 100 pages and thought it got boring after that. If I wasn't reading it for a club, I would have put it down long ago and I never do that.Flanagan just rambles along, perhaps trying to get the reader to understand the state of mind of the obviously insane narrator, but I find it merely tedious. I am not a fan of writers who are more interested in style than story. That is not to say a novel has to be written in a straightforward manner, but it should not be complicated just for the sake of being complicated. Read "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs if you feel the need to read a complex, convoluted book in which the use of an awkward style complements the story.I will be surprised if anyone in my book club actually finishes this horrid book.
