Category: Novel
Novel
Pages Read: 30 Pages To Go: 948 “Mario thrashed and sat up in bed, a small hunched shape with a big head against the gray light of the
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Pages Read: 28 Pages To Go: 950 I feel like everything makes sense now. We’ve returned to Hal as the narrator, but now he’s only ten years old.
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Pages Read: 24 Pages To Go: 954 At least my title makes a modicum of sense. I was going to start by saying I miss Hal already, but
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Pages Read: 14 Pages To Go: 964 A few different times while reading so far, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury has been brought to mind. I’ve never
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Pages Read: 12 Pages To Go: 966 I’ve never seen such a beautiful description of a public restroom. It’s becoming clear that the very detailed exposition is intentional,
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Pages Read: 10 Pages To Go: 968 What the hell just happened? I mentioned a bit earlier that we might be dealing with an unreliable narrator. That was
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Pages Read: 8 Pages To Go: 970 So here we have a our first interlude, a flashback of sorts, presumably on the part of Hal, recounting an experience
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I’m three pages in, no page or chapter break in sight, and there’s already a lot to write about. Thought I should pause to take a breath and
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Opening Line: I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. This is how most of us spend the majority of our lives. Get out and
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So I started reading last night. I made it about three paragraphs before I fell asleep. Not an auspicious beginning. Since I have next to nothing to report
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