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Wow, this book sounds intense. I write fiction and I'm endlessly trying to raise the stakes for the characters but really I dream of writing stories like this. Where someone tries to kill a bug and has an existential crisis. It's just more honest, isn't it? You have to be so good at writing consciousness to get a reader to stick with you for a story like this. You've certainly made me curious about the book. Not sure I would be able to read the whole thing but certainly now am wanting to try...

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Wow, this book sounds intense. I write fiction and I'm endlessly trying to raise the stakes for the characters but really I dream of writing stories like this. Where someone tries to kill a bug and has an existential crisis. It's just more honest, isn't it? You have to be so good at writing consciousness to get a reader to stick with you for a story like this. You've certainly made me curious about the book. Not sure I would be able to read the whole thing but certainly now am wanting to try...

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