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Review: This is not a novel? Damn straight it isn't. I'm usually the first person to applaud experimental fiction, but Markson's book reads like the literary journal of a manic depressive. Not exactly groundbreaking, just pretentious. For those of you not already aware, the book is simply a collection of seemingly disordered facts about famous writers, historians, and philosophers. It turns out that the sentences are not completely disordered, because they tend to follow a very subtle arc that echoes the pattern of life. However, aside from offering the occasional interesting fact, this book has no appeal. It is the first book I couldn't finish in six years.
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