If a book is does not fundamentally work on the first read, then it's not a good book (for me). Even Shakespeare, Chaucer, Rushdie (see my review of THE ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE) all offer a basic plot or emotional payoff on the surface. I got to the end of CATCH-22... and I still didn't care.
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regna
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Date: 2009-03-13 10:10 pm (UTC)