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julesb1024 's review for:
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
I had mixed feelings about this book. It was very slow reading because of the Aussie slang and the jumping around from one thing to another without warning. And I don't know how many times I had to reread pieces because I got confused about which character was saying which sentences (lack of quotes didn't help). Many of the really short chapters (mostly those about the character Fish) made zero sense to me. Some of the members of the two families were also very much strangers to the reader, rarely talked about, and others seemed to be too much defined by one personality trait or habit. But there was enough good stuff to keep me interested in reading until the end.