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Finally done with The Luminaries - I think it took me some eight or ten days... Didn't have a lot of time to read this past week. :-/
In any case, it's not the best book I've ever read, and I am not sure it'll quite make my top ten favourite reads this year, but I did enjoy it as well as appreciate it (not always the same thing!).
The only thing that didn't work for me in the least (and which, I suspect, was a major part of why it's been so critically acclaimed) was the way astrology was used as a sort of framing device for the narrative structure. I'm sure someone with wider knowledge about those matters would get more out of it, because I'm sure there was something very clever being done there, but since it's not a field I've ever had much interest in, I admit I didn't "get" the point of it at all.
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