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Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

1.0

I like big books and I cannot lie.... But I gave up at 17% because it was sooooo boring. Like a turkey with bland stuffing. Repetitive and formulaic. The prose wasn't good either. I even tried to read my own edited version where I replaced every "The fact that" with a full stop. It was still boring (like a turkey without bland stuffing). If the merit of a book depends on a linguistic filler, it's not a good book.