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Read a few chapters into this one but not interested enough to keep going. Seems to be a much-loved novel by many but I'm not sure it has aged well. It seemed very old-fashioned, which was somewhat charming, but the endless description just wore me down. I'm all for a lovely setting (the island of Crete! Nice!) but the plot was just buried under descriptive prose.
We recently watched the old Disney movie with Hayley Mills which was clearly quite different from the book. The main character is a lot more mature, for one thing. So, I did have a sense of the plot and where it was supposed to go, but I just didn't feel compelled to keep going with it.
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