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L'ultimo samurai - Helen DeWitt, Elena Dal Pra
L'ultimo samurai
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9788806157777 (8806157779)
Publisher: Einaudi
Pages no: 452
Edition language: Italian
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moving under skies
moving under skies rated it
4.0 The Last Samurai
This book gave me one of the more mixed reading experiences in recent memory. There were sections of it that I just LOVED! so much that I wanted to pester everyone I knew with excerpts; other parts were so repetitive and annoying that I almost quit reading. Sweartogod the exact same scene is repeate...
viim
viim rated it
I loved this even if I glossed over about two-thirds of it, which were quotes or paraphrases from other texts way over my head. I think I'd be a Sibylla type of parent (only not as smart) which probably wouldn't be the healthiest. This is precocious young boy story done right. I hated that other one...
MochaMike
MochaMike rated it
Six stars! Seven stars! Hell, a herd of stars. We’re givin’ em away (liberated and reworked from The Tubes’ White Punks on Dope).Finding exactly the right book at exactly the right time doesn’t happen very often. Finding exactly the right book at all doesn’t happen often enough. This one found its w...
Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog rated it
3.0
DeWitt's debut novel demonstrates excellent stylistic control and adventurousness often using a lack of punctuation to create a breathless pace that when sustained for long periods tends to leave one breathless and nursing an incipient headache beforeinterruption by another characterreplyrepeated in...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
stricken for least comprehensible book review eveh in ToB***What did I mean by "ToB"? I've no idea
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