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Nitram

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6. One of my all-time favorite books. The writing is beautiful and the characters are original and

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Sun Sep 27, 2020, 07:30 PM

Sep 2020

entirely empathetic and believable. Great humor along with the moving developments. I believe you are missing a great deal if you put a novel like this in the category of a Lake Woebegone radio play.

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Read half of "The Shipping News." Gave up. [View all] bif Sep 2020 OP

i liked the movie...the book reviews said you will hate all the characters at first... samnsara Sep 2020 #1

I hear ya. I usually give a book 50 pages bif Sep 2020 #2

me too. I used to feel guilty about bailing out of well reviewed books... now... "life is short" Demovictory9 Dec 2020 #12

I endorse your view. no_hypocrisy Sep 2020 #3

I liked murielm99 Sep 2020 #4

Shipping (yawn) news... Claire Oh Nette Sep 2020 #5

One of my all-time favorite books. The writing is beautiful and the characters are original and Nitram Sep 2020 #6

Agreed. Oldem Dec 2020 #8

Apparently some readers are wedded to the idea of cliched ordinary people and can't see the humor, Nitram Dec 2020 #9

Resonate is a good word. Oldem Dec 2020 #10

Ditto every word LearnedHand Dec 2020 #11

I'm with you on this birdographer Dec 2020 #7