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Title: brilliantly written pointlessness
Review: Another reviewer said to read this in the winter, so I did. The rain and drizzle trapped me indoors so Naipaul had a captive audience. I didn't relish the book or the characters, nor did I think the attention to detail to be much of an inspiration. I was kind of amused with some of the ideas, and kept thinking there was a bigger, sublime hidden message that would eventually jump out at me. Finally in the last few pages he tells us what motivated him to write this book, but even then the purpose sort of lost me. His attention to explaining simple things in elaborate detail show that he's an accompished writer, so I find it quixotic that so much energy went into a book with such a flat, unemotional, nearly pointless ramble of words.
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