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Title: Pretty Amazing
Review: You don't have to be able to appreciate the spoof on medieval literature and traditions and all that (I know almost nothing of the genre) to go nuts over this book. You do have to exercise a bit of patience after that ringing first chapter, to accustom yourself to the difficult diction and exotic words with bunched-up consonants, but if you do, you'll soon learn that this is very far from some stuffy intellectual's conceit; it's a rip-roaring story that makes you gasp, laugh, and fight yourself not to rush through in order to find out what happens next.Two highpoints: the first chapter not only with its exultant language, but with that wry, wise, hilarious voice, and the chapter called The Penance, an impossibly rich, word-perfect description of time passing and a sort of time-lapse description of Grigorss' physical change that beats to hell, and always will beat to hell, anything you'll see all too literally depicted at the movies.
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