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cantspellrestaraunt OP t1_ixr1pi2 wrote

That's something I hadn't really considered. A phenomenal book can also put you into a reading slump.

A good friend of mine said when she first read The Bell Jar, every book she picked up afterward rang hollow. There was something so blunt and poetic about Plath's prose that she couldn't quite shake off the voice.

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