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"As if the Mercedes is being poured from a bottleneck of urban density out into vastness and shapelessness, out into inexplicable space and plenty". If you like this sentence, you will love this book because there are countless more like it. Look at it: a horrible, totally unispired metaphor of a car flowing like liquid out onto the plains. "A bottleneck of urban density"! You don't pour from a bottleneck, which is a blockage, you pour from a bottle. Why is the space "inexplicable" or shapeless? The self-indulgent rambling is a misguided attempt at poetic imagery in a cheap thriller. The author takes off on these ungramatical flights of misty fancy to pad out the slow-moving action. This clotted prose chokes the book, which has one good idea (the crooks who move you out a day early) and lots of bad ones (like inserting a GPS chip into a wristwatch, or the victim, a Jew, dressing up as a Nazi). If you are looking for shapelessness and inexplicable space and plenty, look no further: it is the book "Moving Day."
May 2014 · Books · verified purchase
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Moving Day: A Thriller
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