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Title: Couldn't finish it.
Review: Had great expectations for this work, but found too many stumbling blocks to make it past the halfway point. For example, the lack of quotation marks. Who's speaking? When is the writing descriptive vs. dialogue? It became too much of a struggle to keep going over paragraphs to figure it out. While the author's intent may have been a breakthrough style, the ultimate effect was affectation. There were some fine moments of characterization, but it was finally too much work to get through it all.
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