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Title: Not for every literary buff.
Review: Manual, yes certainly manual labour is involved. I can acknowledge the intentions of Perecs structuring intellectually but was unable to translate this into an emotive or pleasurable response. The tone is distant and although the detail would suggest realism it is all just a pretext for a two dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Perhaps this is what you are seeking but such antiseptic games are not for me. It lacks both the humanity of Ulysees or the pure romance of The Flanders road to seek two books of comparable difficulty.
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