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A review by pedanther
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan
Did not finish book. Stopped at 9%.
I have never, as far as I recall, had a happy experience with a book with this kind of consciously literary style, and it always irritates me when a book starts with some version of "little did I know then what a terrible fate lay before me..."
I made it to the end of the first chapter/prologue with teeth gritted, and by then I was thoroughly annoyed by the prose style and completely done with all the characters, with the possible exception of Mr Hung, and even the implication that the rest of the book would feature a completely different set of characters that I might theoretically be more interested in was not enough to draw me any further.
I made it to the end of the first chapter/prologue with teeth gritted, and by then I was thoroughly annoyed by the prose style and completely done with all the characters, with the possible exception of Mr Hung, and even the implication that the rest of the book would feature a completely different set of characters that I might theoretically be more interested in was not enough to draw me any further.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content