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OK, I've finished!
There were times where I felt like it was a bit plonkety plonk plonk. But then there were these fantastic moments. Off the top of my head:
- The last full Christmas as a family before the matriarch died
- The matriarch's death
- There were two impressive speeches by Thomas, one about the sea vs the mountains. I can't remember the other one, just that I really enjoyed it
- The fight between Christian and Thomas
- The absolutely exquisite description of little Johann's "improvisation"
I also liked the one-joke characters that appear over and over again, "...my good chawld."
The story was really quite dark, but there were so many little jokes, even if they were really just a handful repeated.
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