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A review by shesnorikkiducornet
Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
3.0
I feel like after almost 3 1/2 years of plodding through this, I should say some words about it THAT AREN’T AS BLOATED AND OBTUSE AS THE TEXT. *suspiciously eyes all the 5* ratings for this*
It is long, it is tedious, and if you have unmedicated ADHD, this WILL be brutal as there are sentences that stretch over pages with no breaks and plenty of parentheticals and changing voices that lack a distinct feel to them like Gaddis’s JR. This is aggressively obtuse and VERY repetitive.
Sure, I get my longest-novel-written-in-blah-blah-blah badge of honor. But, like, what’s that really amount to? I already feel superior to people who solely read YA.
It is long, it is tedious, and if you have unmedicated ADHD, this WILL be brutal as there are sentences that stretch over pages with no breaks and plenty of parentheticals and changing voices that lack a distinct feel to them like Gaddis’s JR. This is aggressively obtuse and VERY repetitive.
Sure, I get my longest-novel-written-in-blah-blah-blah badge of honor. But, like, what’s that really amount to? I already feel superior to people who solely read YA.