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Nothing to Be Frightened of by Julian Barnes

3.0

Gorgeous prose, just beautiful. I wanted to love this book and when I first started it I thought I was going to. But in the end it is pretentious and name-dropping to an extent that really turned me off. I want to read Barnes's fiction, because he's a brilliant writer, but this one bored me with the million references to old British writers and artists, the large majority of whom I've never heard of. I was interested in Julian Barnes's take on death, not a ton of references to what others thought. Loved his way with words, didn't love what he chose to do with those words.