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Title: Too much navel-gazing
Review: Mercifully the novel improves as it reaches its conclusion but, for the most part, this struck me as an exercise in self-indulgence. The overall impression is of a man desperate to impress upon his reader the extent to which he contemplates the minutiae of everyday life. There are some enjoyable interludes in which he entertainingly digresses on the importance of footnotes and ponders the possibility of urinating on someone's head but, sadly, much of this novel is simply stultifyingly tedious.
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