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Tómas Jónsson: Metsölubók by Guðbergur Bergsson

breadandmushrooms's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

pearloz's review against another edition

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The wrong book at the wrong time: this was the 3rd(?) senile and/or slowly going mad narrator I’ve read this year and nah. I made it 150 pages and was gonna push for 200 but was dreading my reading time—a bad sign. DNF.

timbo001's review against another edition

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3.0

I wanted to like this book. It has all the elements of a work I like: experimentation, creative license, humor, cultural specificity and universal appeal. I just couldn't ever like the narrator or the people around him, and sometimes that's enough to sour a book for me.
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