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Book Review of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Helpful Score: 2


Very original in voice--a brick on the accelerator of life in an deeply angst-ridden way. Once you get used to the pace of these sentences (that ramble like a cocaine-riddled narrator would...but he's not on coke!), these characters really grew on me. Very sweet and loving, but not typical.