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Originally Posted by dead_battery
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thanks for linking this - an interesting read (though i stopped a little before the end as i haven't quite finished reading the book yet...!)
comparisons to mein kampf put me off the argument slightly...?! unnecessary & incendiary (lots of other examples would have sufficed instead without the same hysteria attached).
i do agree with this stuff about snobbery in literature. like i referred to 'emperor's new clothes' in an earlier post. but i think the review misses something that i find enjoyable (perhaps not enjoyable but engaging) in the utter mundanity of the characters' lives. that's what i find to be the human element of the book even in the most absurd moments i still recognise something base and mundane that i can relate to.