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Old 06-28-2006, 07:20 AM
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Originally posted by Despare
How long can you drag a metaphor out for? That book bothers me to this day. Hemingway is a master but I really didn't like that one.
well its almost a novelette to begin with ..

i remember it being one of the first books that changed the way i looked at literature (catcher in the rye, one flew over the cuckoos, the pearl, and the pigman were the others ..

i thought it was compelling .. i was too young to appreciate the 'man against nature' metaphor (something that is still pretty timely...)

a book like this - that well written - speaks to me in ways that king has no hope to.
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