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We already have a pretty good idea of what a few readers thought from some premature ... comments on the voting thread.
I quite enjoyed the preface and the first couple of chapters. They reminded me of my father. Not that he had anything to do with Canada, but it was the sort of humour that I think my dad would have appreciated. Much as CRussel said, it's a quiet smile rather than laugh-out-loud.
I think that had I read this over a period of weeks, a chapter here and a chapter there (as it was originally published), that I would be inclined to say better things about it. But trying to read it all at once, like a novel, meant that I quickly tired of its repetitive nature, with many of essentially the same lines appearing again and again. To paraphrase a common refrain from the book: "of course, you know all about it just as well as I do."
But despite the drawbacks, there was still some small amusement from following the lives of these people, and seeing something of their lifestyle and how much we still share in the same absurdities.
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