This book was definitly different from your average read. It didn't follow the same structure that stories usually do where there is an obvious progression of events with a problem and a resolution at the end. With the exeption of a few scenes that I really enjoyed, the set up of the novel made me uncomfortable. Nothing really moved or porgressed; you just watched the characters in different scenes living thier miserable lives and nothing gets better. When I turned the last page and realized I was at the end of the book I kept flipping the page back and forth feeling I must have missed something because a story dosn't end like that.
Mr. Steiling described the book as a painting; your not looking at it as a story that progresses but rather something that sits there unchanging for you to observe as a whole. Hearing this actually made me a lot more comfortable with the story. Maybe because this is a form of observation that I am comfortable with even though it is not usually in the medium of text.
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