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product_id: 60398609
title: "This Should Be Written in the Present Tense Paperback – January 12, 2016"
brand: "helle hellemartin aitken"
price: "VT6098"
currency: VUV
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reviews_count: 7
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# This Should Be Written in the Present Tense Paperback – January 12, 2016

**Brand:** helle hellemartin aitken
**Price:** VT6098
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** This Should Be Written in the Present Tense Paperback – January 12, 2016 by helle hellemartin aitken
- **How much does it cost?** VT6098 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Lost in Translation?
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 14, 2016*

At the start, the deceptive simplicity of her novel slowly ensnares the reader into Helle's precious little world. I almost fell into comparing her with Hemingway, except that Hemingway compresses rupturing emotions in the spaces between words, whereas Helle's sentences are mood pieces, the nearest one gets to a Nordic haiku. But it only gets us so far.Eventually, Helle's writing style, in refusing to succumb to any weighted passage, stretching instead the reader's patience with book-long buried allusions, descends to vapidity.Perhaps it is a matter of taste. Perhaps my tropical background instinctively prefers branches groaning with plump fruits of juicy sentences despite my pretensions of liking the bare Bergmanian boughs. One must take any story on its own terms. But in all honesty, one never achieves this: each reader interacts with the pages uniquely. Hence, to me, This Should be Written in the Present Tense launches solidly, with me enraptured by its shadowy winter writing, only to leave me too long in the cold.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Still not sure why I really like this
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 28, 2016*

Older male here, and found this book fascinating, not in any way titillating.  Still don't remember why I bought it, but glad I did.  It's just that I feel I've begun to understand this person and find myself liking her and being annoyed by her in different measures.  But then curious to follow her around and see what comes next.  Stayed up way too late finishing book off .. a compliment to the author.

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I kept reading only because it had been recommended, so I felt sure something would happen at ...
  

*by S***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2016*

I never did determine what the purpose of this story is.  I kept reading only because it had been recommended, so I felt sure something would happen at some time.  It was boring and very disappointing.  I'm sorry I wasted time on it.

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