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Title: A good story, poorly told
Review: I skipped this in high school, reading it now for the first time at 55 years of age.Despite the rave reviews, this emperor has no clothes. In fact, this book is a model of how NOT to tell a story.The tale itself is excellent; compact and full of surprises and irony. But it is submerged in such a wordy, tedious, self-absorbed monotone that the reader can only appreciate it in retrospect, when they have dragged it out of the muck, shaken it free of detritus and seen its bare form.Prose, be damned. A good story, told for the ear of the reader, that's where prose is.I feel genuinely sorry for every young person forced to read this when there are thousands of better choices.
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