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Heaped full of tedious twists and turns, unnecessary verbiage and overuse of the word'astonishing'/'astonishment'. After reading the book, I realised the first and last paragraph carried the exact same message. Thus there was no need for a whole book; essentially, Okri wrote an essay, split it in half, then stuffed a meandering mess of incomprehensible metaphors between them and tied it all together with the word astonishing. Truthfully, I only finished reading the book because it was short(but certainly not concise). I can only compare my experience to getting a wisdom tooth extracted without anesthetic, while sitting on a rusty six inch nail. "Astonishing the Gods could have been exhilarating but due to Okri's flowery, garish and over zealous prose, it was simply, trite.

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