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Related: About this forumhas anybody read The Sheltering Sky by Paul Boyles? Interested in your reactions..Tenessee Williams
thought it was great. Others were not so impressed.
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has anybody read The Sheltering Sky by Paul Boyles? Interested in your reactions..Tenessee Williams (Original Post)
Bill USA
Feb 2017
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dhill926
(16,380 posts)1. on my IPad, but haven't read it yet....
looking forward to it...
hermetic
(8,331 posts)2. No, but I might
A novel of existential despair that examines the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness of the desert in North Africa.
Sounds intriguing but not sure how much more despair I can handle right now.
pscot
(21,024 posts)3. I just finished Nausea
so I feel like I've filled my quota of existential bleakness for this quarter.
bif
(22,795 posts)4. I read it back when I was in high school
I really enjoyed it. May have to reread it. That was many moons ago.