I'm at odds about this book. On one hand it is gently interweaving multiple story threads with patience and care.
On the other hand it includes lines like this:
"His penis was more narrow than wide, more O Henry bar than chocolate slab, more spring rhubarb than autumn gourd, more canoe than motorboat." ?????
Which might be one of THE worst sentences I've ever read in a novel.
So...a real toss-up right now. ?
Aims42 😳😖😳😖😳😖 1mo
Soubhiville Well that‘s bizarre. 1mo
kspenmoll What?!😳 1mo
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Leftcoastzen 😵 1mo
willaful *boggle* 1mo
Ruthiella 🤮🙄😳 1mo
Hooked_on_books 😂 1mo
BarbaraBB 🤣🤣 love the accompanying photo 🤣🤣 1mo
Cathythoughts Yuck 🤮 I‘m staying away from this one. 1mo
CSeydel Whoa, that‘s a sentence I can‘t unread 1mo
Susanita That‘s pretty bad 🤣🤣 1mo
Anna40 Why oh why? 1mo
OrangeMooseReads That line gives me the ick lol 1mo
youneverarrived 🙈😂😂 1mo
sarahbarnes That is…so bad. 😆😆😆 1mo
thegirlwiththelibrarybag Thanks for sharing that sentence 🤣 I think I‘d take it as my sign to DNF 1mo
merelybookish @aims42 @soubhiville @kspenmoll @leftcoastzen @willaful @ruthiella @hooked_on_books Definitely a sentence that inspires a lot of emojis! And disgust. 😂 1mo
merelybookish @barbarabb seemed better than an Oh Henry bar. 😆 4w
merelybookish @cathythoughts A wise decision! 4w
merelybookish @CSeydel Oh, it's bad! Perhaps I should have provided a trigger warning. 4w
merelybookish @susanita @anna40 @youneverarrived @sarahbarnes It's like one of those comparisons would have been more than enough to gross me out... but three???? 4w
merelybookish @thegirlwiththelibrarybag Yeah, this is the dilemma. I'm more than halfway and I'm slightly interested in the storyline. So not sure I'm ready to DNF just yet. (Instead it will probably become a hate read.) 4w
TheLudicReader Dear Lord, I have no memory of that. 🤮 4w
quietlycuriouskate Oh dear God.... and I still haven't forgotten the penis/seahorse image in The English Patient! 4w
merelybookish @TheLudicReader This is one of the downsides of audiobooks. Harder to ignore or not hear terrible prose. 4w
merelybookish @quietlycuriouskate Oh God, I wonder if it's a Canadian thing. 😒 4w
Reggie Lololololololololol 4w
merelybookish @Reggie exactly!!! 😂 4w
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