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Old 05-26-2017, 05:49 PM   #11
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Maybe I don't understand what you mean by dry writing. If anything, I thought the book was overwritten. I struggled with many of the metaphors and then gave them up. I thought it was self-consciously fancy writing, the opposite of dry.
To me it was slow. It was also predicable in places. The story felt dated. It has an odd feel. It feels like it should be in the future and that it's in the past as the same time.
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