Re:"This is water, this is water."
by tptacek on Sunday August 21, 2011 @04:42PM
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Or, don't be afraid of IJ, but set your expectations properly; as a coherent narrative, it's only going to start coming together in the final third of the book. Until then, read it as a series of intimate essays written from a parallel dimension.
Don't skip the footnotes. They aren't intended to be optional.
Re:"This is water, this is water."
by idlewords on Sunday August 21, 2011 @10:48PM
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Also note that the many factual errors in the footnotes appear to be honest mistakes by the author rather than an effort to signpost an unreliable narrator. I really tied my mind in pretzels before figuring that out.
Don't skip the footnotes. They aren't intended to be optional.