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The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
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3.5, rounded up.
This is only my 2nd book by Tokarczuk (the first being Drive Your Plow ... which made my top reads list for whenever it was I read that!) - and although I enjoyed MOST of it, it took me an inordinately long time to get through the first half and I think a LOT of that was largely superfluous - there IS a difference between a slow burn ... and a plod! The 2nd half I whipped through in 1.5 days, and it really elevated my opinion of the book as a whole.
Not having read Mann's The Magic Mountain, I can't comment on how this does or does not interface with that, but it seems from what I've gleaned from other's reviews, that isn't really necessary anyway. The twists in the last 30 pages certainly made this an intriguing read, but I am not so sure I wouldn't have liked it more at 150, rather than 300 pages.
This is only my 2nd book by Tokarczuk (the first being Drive Your Plow ... which made my top reads list for whenever it was I read that!) - and although I enjoyed MOST of it, it took me an inordinately long time to get through the first half and I think a LOT of that was largely superfluous - there IS a difference between a slow burn ... and a plod! The 2nd half I whipped through in 1.5 days, and it really elevated my opinion of the book as a whole.
Not having read Mann's The Magic Mountain, I can't comment on how this does or does not interface with that, but it seems from what I've gleaned from other's reviews, that isn't really necessary anyway. The twists in the last 30 pages certainly made this an intriguing read, but I am not so sure I wouldn't have liked it more at 150, rather than 300 pages.
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