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    I'm reading Intermezzo by Sally Rooney and finding Peter's chapters a slog. I'm around 100 pages in and I understand – I think – that it's meant to be chaotic, to reflect his work or his mental state.

    But it's so disjointed and scatty I find myself losing interest in what's happening.
    Rooney's style of unpunctuated dialogue isn't helping either.

    In Ivan's/Margaret's chapters, I can follow it easily – and the story is more my style.

    Does the writing shift at all for Peter's chapters?

    I really want to love this book as much as her others but it's quite tedious deciphering what is dialogue, subjective/objective narration.

    by lannon364

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