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The Keep - Jennifer Egan
The Keep
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B000URWYRU
Pages no: 274
Edition language: English
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My Journey to Become Pretentiously Literate
My Journey to Become Pretentiously Literate rated it
2.0 The Keep
The premise of this book is better than the novel itself - in the end, a quirky writing style, unsympathetic characters, and a lack of payoff sabotage what could have been an intense and emotional storyline. Above all, this book convinces me that Egan is best suited short stories, where her typicall...
Tellulah Darling
Tellulah Darling rated it
I really loved this story of family dysfunction and ghosts and murder and hope. My one complaint was that the final narrative turn it takes turning into Holly's story , while it makes sense, given everything that has been set up to this point, didn't engage me emotionally in the same way.A great re...
madbkwm
madbkwm rated it
I read this book a few years ago, but wanted to re-read it so that I could write a review. It was better than I remembered, but still not very stellar. I felt like this is three stories interlayed within each other (possibly in part because Egan can't deal with a full length novel? Goon Squad is ...
The Way She Reads
The Way She Reads rated it
5.0
“What’s real, Danny? Is reality TV real? Are confessions you read on the Internet real? The words are real, someone wrote them, but beyond that the question doesn’t even make sense.”When Danny needs to leave New York, his life there and an unfortunate incident behind in a hurry he accepts an invitat...
Raging Biblioholism
Raging Biblioholism rated it
5.0 The Keep
A marvelous, magical novel - shifting and changing under you even as you read it. It isn't at all what you're expecting from the jacket copy, so just ignore it and dive in. You'll know how you feel about the novel by about page 15. For me, I found Egan's writing to be on a-whole-nother level from...
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