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nicole_reads_everything 's review for:
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER: 1994
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I'm still not entirely sure how I felt about this one. 3.5 rounded, down, I think...
The writing style is quite unusual, and I don't know that I enjoyed it all that much. It certainly took me awhile to grow more or less accustomed to it, and though I can see how the style might compliment the story, for me, it ultimately was more distracting that anything, repeatedly pulling me out of the novel. It builds fairly slowly, but I did enjoy the characters--enjoyed them more the more and more I read--and the community of Newfoundland was wonderfully captured. Things seemed to meander a bit more than I thought was strictly necessary. Overall, I did enjoy, though I didn't absolutely love it.
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I'm still not entirely sure how I felt about this one. 3.5 rounded, down, I think...
The writing style is quite unusual, and I don't know that I enjoyed it all that much. It certainly took me awhile to grow more or less accustomed to it, and though I can see how the style might compliment the story, for me, it ultimately was more distracting that anything, repeatedly pulling me out of the novel. It builds fairly slowly, but I did enjoy the characters--enjoyed them more the more and more I read--and the community of Newfoundland was wonderfully captured. Things seemed to meander a bit more than I thought was strictly necessary. Overall, I did enjoy, though I didn't absolutely love it.