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Books that changed the way you live 2017-03-14 11:45:37 Post No. 9236428
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This book hit me like a brick. At first in a bad way, then in a good way.
"Sometimes he would put the lamp out and lie on the rug on the floor and watch the edges of color that the sea salt and the sand in the wood made in the flame as they burned. On the floor his eyes were even with the line of the burning wood and he could see the line of the flame when it left the wood and it made him both sad and happy. All wood that burned affected him in this way. But burning driftwood did something to him that he could not define. He thought that is was probably wrong to burn it when he was so fond of it; but he felt no guilt about it"
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>>9236428
I love the narration but the dialogue absolutely kills me. I recently tried to read it but gave up after 100 pages because of how slowly it did progress and how unbearable the dialogue especially with the children was.
I assume since you really liked it you would recommend giving it another try?
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>>9236490
and the parts like the quote you gave are really great I must admit.
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>>9236500 I agree that some of the dialog with the kids can be a little tedious. But for me I tried to read into their words more than I normally would with dialogue and it got a bit more interesting. Either way yes I'd 100% reccomend pushing through if for nothing but the u-boat chase that takes up the last quarter of the novel. It really ties the rest of the novel into what I saw as a way of life.
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