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The Seducer by Jan Kjærstad
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November 16, 2020 – Started Reading
November 16, 2020 – Shelved
November 16, 2020 –
page 10
1.63% "have heard a lot of good thigns about this novel... Weird complaint but I'm not a fan of how this paper feels lol"
November 17, 2020 –
page 53
8.66% "it’s like a much more readable Joseph McElroy novel. Superb"
November 18, 2020 –
page 95
15.52% "never read anything like this. Kjaerstad approaches reality with a sense of almost childlike wonder, resisting easy explanations. He constantly searches for the nuance and complexity. this sense of anti-reductionism might seem postmodern, but the joy and excitement of the book is refreshingly free of the bitterness and irony one might associate with other postmodernist novels. brilliant stuff."
November 20, 2020 –
page 138
22.55% "this is almost everything you could ask for from a book"
December 27, 2020 –
page 168
27.45% "this book is genuinely difficult, but in a way I’ve never experienced before. It is so rich, so dense with ideas, that you’re basically full after every 15 pages. Astounding, certainly demands a future re-read"
December 27, 2020 –
page 208
33.99% "there’s a chapter called “The Magic Penis”"
December 31, 2020 –
page 250
40.85%
January 15, 2021 –
page 303
49.51% "Aunt Laura is lowkey cancelled"
January 16, 2021 –
page 355
58.01% "“Georgica” might be one of the most beautiful chapters I’ve ever read... God this book is ceaselessly rich with knowledge and emotion and passion. In some ways Kjærstad works in plain view, yet he has an elusive playfulness that defies summary and analysis"

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