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Book Review of The Memory of Running

The Memory of Running
The Memory of Running
Author: Ron McLarty
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
JanieK avatar reviewed on + 54 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1


It was interesting to read all the reviews of this book...and there are many under various editions on paperbackswap. Part of me was very surprised to see all the great reviews and I agreed in part with some of them but...I don't know, part of me is ambivalent. I bought this at the discount rack at Borders before I discovered PaperbackSwap (thank you, God!!) It reminded me very much of Forrest Gump. Perhaps you have to be in the mood because it's an introspective reading IMO. That said, I never thought of actually putting it down once I started to really read it. (I'd begun it a few times and stopped when I got more um.... 'instantly gratifying' books in the mail LOL)

I guess for me it was like an uneventful walk on a long, quiet road to no place in particular: there isn't really anything exciting to see but you're not in a hurry to be anyplace else so you may as well plod along and see where it takes you.