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The Great Ordeal was a mixed bag for me Larry Send a noteboard - 13/10/2016 05:55:57 PM

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Bought Bakker's latest, though, I'll get to that in a couple of months

A lot of his best and worst traits are more readily present in this volume than previous ones. I think the second half will either redeem the writing here or make me abandon it before the third series is written.

Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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