I am going to revisit this when I don't have a couple different things I really need to do first ( wink hubski newsletter goes out tomorrow morning wink) but here's a couple things:

Super long sentences. Sometimes pages long. It kind of reminds me of that one author...Hemingway? I don't know. I read Hemingway in high school and I think they talked a lot about his long, rambling but flowing sentences. Alas, I was too cool to pay much attention so I might be totally off.

I'm not sure how much of this is a conscious style. That one sentence that was like 3 pages was for sure, but in general some sentences just seem like it may be the translation. Spanish in general is a much more flowly and longwinded way of speaking.

I'm alright the characters. They are the focus of part 1, for sure, since not much really happens. They mostly just are there, and thinking, and occasionally fucking, and at conferences. They don't do much, or at least during reading it it doesn't seem like they do much. Looking back, they have done a good number of things but as you read it it doesn't seem like it. I partially attribute it to the long, winding sentences.

I wish Liz Norton had more to her. She seems like a cunt to fuck at times. She allows the other characters to be more fully developed, especially in terms of sexual desires and relationships and friendships. But I wish girls weren't always just cunts to fuck.

I particularly loved this passage:

I also think this is a really horribly fantastic insult and wish I could use it somehow:

I also noted the dreams that they all had throughout. I want to read them all together and see if I can derive anything meaningful for them. The dreams were all really intense and stood out to me.

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