Even though I have read both the Trial and the Castle, I found this book to be very esoteric. It is very much a book for the scholar deeply immersed in Literary theory.
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I gave up. The characters were, as others have commented, very stereotyped. The story was slow and didn’t grip me. I didn’t warm to any of the characters either. And the narration was boring with very poor accents. One character who was supposed to be Glaswegian, (my daughter lives in Glasgow so I do know..
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