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I like that. "...poetry is actually a personal experience unlike prose." And I agree. I don't dislike poetry; I actually enjoy writing it very much. I don't like reading other peoples' poetry though, because its usually much harder to gather the meaning under the limited words that poet chose to use.

You can add me to your list of people who really enjoyed the book! And unlike the other posters to this thread it seems, I actually liked his prose. It has a sort of backseat placidity that sort of parallels Briony's dream-like misunderstanding of the adult world.