Here we go, into the novel that, if pressed, I will say is the greatest of all time. And the very first sentence is...misleading? We quickly find that we're in the hands of a narrator who can't seem to concentrate, much less serve as a reliable guide to the events of the story. Instead of creating an intellectual puzzle, however, this narrator shows he's going to offer us something more important--insight into the fallibility and greatness of human beings.

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