"I'm a big Ken Jennings fan and am always interested in things beyond this lifetime, so I was pretty excited when my partner suggested we listen to this audiobook on a long drive.

It gave me a headache.

When we had completed 63% of the book, I finally said: "This book removes everything I like in books. It's just descriptions. There's basically no meaning to be found, and most of the places are similar hells with long, awful details."

Partner: "Yeah, it's a reference book."*

This book transported me to a unique Hell.
I refuse to finish it.
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*I like reference books and prefer nonfiction, but reading a reference book that basically says the same thing over and over and over again? No, thanks. "

"A highly relatable story of a young woman starting to live in a big city, having a whole set of strange things fold before her eyes. She tries to feel something new yet she feels very little.
Reading this novel feels like hearing snatches of people's private conversations, like the ones we overhear in cafes or on trains, which fills us with happiness and sadness both."