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Book I Just Gave Up On: The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Ok, I gave it a go, I really did.  After 3 days, I was only on page 50 or so because I just couldn’t get into it…and I came across this sentence:

“She swam like a mermaid in the swamp-tank of my dreams.”

and only a few pages later:

“I have made my heart into a camellia floating in a bowl of clear, pure water when in fact it was a dark and bloated thing.”

Huh?

Moving on…

This entry was written by Jacki, posted on January 27, 2011 at 4:28 pm, filed under Review and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Marce
    Posted January 27, 2011 at 4:58 pm | Permalink

    I love your posts, I totally feel like I know you, I can hear you saying this, lol.

    Moving on……. :-)

  2. Lucy
    Posted January 27, 2011 at 5:09 pm | Permalink

    lol. I wasn’t especially impressed with Max Tivolli either, although I did manage to finish. My main problem was that I thought it was stealing ideas from Benjamin Button

  3. Julie
    Posted January 28, 2011 at 6:11 pm | Permalink

    Are you trying to tell me that you’ve never once felt like a camellia floating in a bowl of clear, pure water? I’m so sad for you.