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Title: Uh-huh (clearing throat)
Review: I consider myself well-read and a love rof good literature, but I am afraid this book is just beyond me. It seems to be a stream of existentialist prose or somesuch, and lost me in its turgid non-plot.I appreciate that many reviewers say they have got a lot from this book, but I would caution the generalist reader.This book was chosen for my book club, and we all started it in good faith and tried to persist with it. I don't think anyone finished it. In fact at one stage I read out one or two of the more pretentious and portentous passages to my partner, and we ended up rolling around laughing at the meaningless gibberish posing as serious insight. Predates post-modernism, but seems to anticipate all its pseud-cred!Salman Rushdie supposedly called it "fiendishly esoteric". I think that MAY translate as "I'm a very self-important windbag, and I didn't understand a bloody word either!"
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