<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishWalter Kendrick, mwandishi wa New York Times Book Review, alisema: Kama ni hadithi ya kuigiza, basi ni picha ya ngono, na kama ni hadithi ya kuigiza, basi ni picha ya kuigiza.  <response>: It would be pornographic, if it werent art Walter Kendrick, the New York Times Book Review . Others find that the novels format--a combination of letters and rambling diatribes--makes the story repetitious and tedious. 