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Book Review of The Shipping News

The Shipping News
The Shipping News
Author: Annie Proulx
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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It took me forever to get through this book. I persevered to the end because I read so many good things about it and several reviews noted that it started off slow (it did) and then turned into a "wonderful" something or other by the end. I reckon I slept through the "wonderful" part.

I found the writing to be very intriguing and very visual, I kept rereading phrases and wondering how the author came up with some of the comparisons in her phrases.

But the story was not interesting, it dragged, and it took all my will to get through to the end. Disappointing.