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Recommend: No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was taking a drive. It was nice. It felt good to be moving. I didn\u2019t know where I was going. I was just driving. Boredom had taken hold of me – usually I was never bored but now I had fallen prey to it. I couldn\u2019t think of anything I wanted to do. So I just did something. I got in my car and drove and when I got somewhere I could turn right or left I turned right, and at the next place I could turn right or left I turned right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And so on goes this very slender 40 page novella. Jon Fosse has employed a distinctive drone throughout the whole story. Sentences are short and bland. One will end only to be repeated, with minor variations, a few lines later. There are no paragraphs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I liked the ambiguous plot. A man drives aimlessly to a forest, gets lost, sees a shining apparition. I imagined the narrator was dying, off-screen. He does mention that it had been a while since he had seen anyone. I was recalling the movie All Of Us Strangers, where you see characters in a limbo state between life and death, in a world that physically mirrors the living. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writing style was just too difficult for this book to be enjoyable. When you are looking forward to finishing a book and it\u2019s only 40 pages, that is likely not a good sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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