A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life

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George Saunders

By

George Saunders

2022 • 433 pages

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2024-12-07 Abandoned, p.148. Friends of mine who are smart, literate, and compassionate love this book; I just find it tedious. The Russian Master stories are meh. Saunders's over-over-overanalysis of each one is navelgazing to extremes I never imagined possible. But shrug, I'm not a writer or a literary critic nor do I GAF about the art of writing nor am I smart literate compassionate, and life is short.

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2024-12-07 Abandoned, p.148. Friends of mine who are smart, literate, and compassionate love this book; I just find it tedious. The Russian Master stories are meh. Saunders's over-over-overanalysis of each one is navelgazing to extremes I never imagined possible. But shrug, I'm not a writer or a literary critic nor do I GAF about the art of writing nor am I smart literate compassionate, and life is short.

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