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    The second English book I finished this summer. Though I'm actually a slow reader to English books, this book is truly a page turner. Just couldn't put it down. I was as obsessed as the boys to the Lisbon girls. With the story line went on, I found myself caught in the same bewilderment like the boys. Having known the final end in the first paragraph, still I knew nothing more than the narrator when I reached the last page. The twists in its plots left me stunned and the foreseen end just makes all this process sadder and much more ominous. Well-written and haunting, I guess I'll soon be rereading this book, probably even go on searching for the movie. 2008/8/19

    (The descriptions of rotting Lisbon house keep reminding me of the Fall of the House of Usher. Thought the scenes and atmospheres are different, they somehow give me the same chill of slow, gradual death and decay.) ... (continue)

    The second English book I finished this summer. Though I'm actually a slow reader to English books, this book is truly a page turner. Just couldn't put it down. I was as obsessed as the boys to the Lisbon girls. With the story line went on, I found myself caught in the same bewilderment like the boys. Having known the final end in the first paragraph, still I knew nothing more than the narrator when I reached the last page. The twists in its plots left me stunned and the foreseen end just makes all this process sadder and much more ominous. Well-written and haunting, I guess I'll soon be rereading this book, probably even go on searching for the movie. 2008/8/19

    (The descriptions of rotting Lisbon house keep reminding me of the Fall of the House of Usher. Thought the scenes and atmospheres are different, they somehow give me the same chill of slow, gradual death and decay.)

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