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Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

1.0

I nearly cried with joy when I read the last page of this book, not because it had a happy ending but because I was so glad to be done with it. This is among the worst books I've ever read. I trudged through it. I wish I wasn't so determined to finish books I start sometimes, but this one was for a new book club, so I saw it through. For long stretches, I didn't even have any idea what was going on with the plot because it was just so boring and nonsensical. Essentially, this is a book in which the author used excessive words (and flaunted his vocabulary) to tell a ridiculously hard to follow and boring story. How it was ever critically-acclaimed, I do not understand. If I were to ever meet Mark Helprin, I'd have to tell him off for wasting so much of my time on this tome of a book.