Has anyone ever made it all the way through Ducks, Newburyport?

[AnnotherReader]

I got Ducks, Newbury port from the library yesterday.
It is so big that it caught my eye, the title sounded familiar, and the blurb sounded interesting, I read the first few lines and it seemed pretty normal, but I didn't look any further ahead.

Its on the second page that it changes. I realised that I had been reading the same sentence for about 5 pages so I flicked ahead and there is no sign of a full stop until page 90!

And it is not like Girl, Woman, Other where there were no full stops but it still had sentences as line breaks were used instead, this is a continuous sentence that runs on without a break for 80+ pages.

The comment on the front of the book that mentions Ulysses makes sense now.
Its was booker prize nominated so I should have known that it wasn't the book for me 😉

I just wondered if anyone has made it all the way through?
I did enjoy the few pages that I read but I can't make it through 1,000 pages of the same. I am the kind of reader who likes short chapters.

Chalk me up as one who won't be trying. I downloaded the Amazon sample. The first page (about some sort of big cat?) is OK, the rest is just tedious drivel.

There might be an interesting story somewhere in there, but novels that use such a gimmicky method of narrating the story are never good ones, in my opinion.

I read it and really loved it. At first I felt quite lost, but I sort of just let it wash over me and I got used to it. There was a (very loose) plot that I got invested in. Definitely not for everyone though!

The only thing it has in common with Ulysses is that it is a big book.

One was written by a genius who knew how to punctuate but-for literary reasons-chose not to-he was contributing to literary thought. The other is written by someone who is unsure about punctuation and is making no contribution to literary history whatsoever.

I thought it would have been much more appropriate if turkey-rather than ducks-was the fowl referred to in the title because that would give a clue to any unsuspecting reader caught up in the hype.

I think I saw somewhere the entire book is only six sentences. The premise intrigues me. I gave up on it but might give it another try.