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Summary: Over-hyped and self-indulgent
Review: I made it fifty pages into this massive book before finally giving up on it out of sheer boredom, and all I can say after the experience is that it's ashame Mark Moskowitz didn't devote his effort to resurrecting a more deserving lost book than this one. If you want to read a true lost masterpiece, try Thomas William's "Whipple's Castle," or John Gardner's "The Sunlight Dialogues," or almost anything by the Autrailian novelists Patrick White. But if you must take a look at "The Stones of Summer", if only to see what it's all about, then do yourself a favor and borrow it from your local library instead of spending your own hard earned money on it. As far as I'm concerned, this book isn't worth owning even if they were giving it away for free.
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Summary: Can't get past word choices
Review: Okay...I have not been able to finish this book. Some of the author's choices of words are somewhat suspect. In the very first paragraph, he claims that "the conversations inside the car were like great wood eyes". How in the sweet Spanish Jesus can a conversation be like a great wood eye? This edition should come with a sheet of LSD, then maybe I could begin to grasp some of the concepts. The only reason I haven't given it one star is because I haven't finished it. Ever hopeful am I...My hope is like a great wall of onyx-like chess pieces. Oh God, it's contagious!
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Summary: Don't quit your day job, Mr. Mossman
Review: If nothing else, this book seems to be a Rorschach for online reviewers. Here's my "clear-headed" take on it:The book was a chore for me, which I undertook mainly because of its reportedly transcendent possibilities. I was able to grit it out, partly not to be a quitter, but also because the journey kept flinging nuggets of brilliant invention in my path, intense images and perspectives that I found resonant and moving, well above my usual reading fare. FWIW, the author did convince me of his intellect (which I believe was one of his minor aims). In this very long book, I consistently sensed the author's attentive presence in every metaphor-dense line, and never once saw him lapse into mere typing. Finally, though, I suspect that all his unique and remarkable visions (the ones that reached me, anyway) could have been delivered in half as many pages.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: There is no doubt why this book disappeared after its first printing 25 years ago, it is terrible. It is boring, its characters don't make sense and the story is hopeless. Why anyone would recommend this book is well beyond my comprehension.
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