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Abhishek Mishra
I'm afraid not. This isn't your usual page-turner. The book is layered, even allegorical in most verses. The experience of the first half of the book was rather draining, and the second half moved faster.
I recommend not to read this as a story, but as an essay. It might change how you understand it.
I recommend not to read this as a story, but as an essay. It might change how you understand it.
Richard
In one sense, it's pretty easy — neither the vocabulary nor sentence structure is especially difficult. Compared to many other "great books", this one is short and pretty simple.
That said, there are some confusing elements, such as the fact that some characters are known by titles instead of names, or that the narrative skips around a bit.
What makes this difficult is that it obviously has many layers of meaning that the reader can spend hours thinking about. A lot of people are first exposed to it as a school assignment, and resent that so much that they don't realize it's a pretty easy one. If those students compared it to The Brothers Karamozov or Moby-Dick, they'd see they're introduced to complex literature in a very gentle manner.
That said, there are some confusing elements, such as the fact that some characters are known by titles instead of names, or that the narrative skips around a bit.
What makes this difficult is that it obviously has many layers of meaning that the reader can spend hours thinking about. A lot of people are first exposed to it as a school assignment, and resent that so much that they don't realize it's a pretty easy one. If those students compared it to The Brothers Karamozov or Moby-Dick, they'd see they're introduced to complex literature in a very gentle manner.
Adam Becker
I would say no. The narration style of this book can be quite confusing. He rambles incessantly and changes topics at the drop of a hat, as well as mixes dialog in at random times with no line breaks at all. This book is a massive wall of text, and that it saying something since its just over 100 pages.
Tritel
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J
hmmm. It is deep and layered, so it's like many great works of literature--sort of as complex as you want to make it
Mark Carew
No, not easy. The narration is highly personal and idiosyncratic, as suits the adventurer entering a brand new world.
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