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Title: a very dissappointing book that repeated itself endlessly
Review: my whole reading group found this book extreamely dissappointing. It was the first time in years that most of us did not finish a book we were going to discuss. While Saramago's idea of imagining what would happen if the iberian penninsula were to break off from the rest of Europe is mildly amusing, after twenty pages, he runs out of ideas and keeps repeating himself over and over, in long complex sentances that take quite an effort to read. he does not develope interesting caracters - he creates a series of stick figures. there is no real plot to speak of, just a series of random travels. maybe the magic of this book is completely lost in translation.
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