Title: Egomaniac's Experiment
Product review: It has taken me a while to get to this review because I so disliked the book, I wanted to get some (hopefully) cogent thoughts together. This may have been an experiment on the writer's part, or perhaps plain ego alone. Either way, it failed miserably.The jacket relates that the author was self-taught in the classics. He decided to show off all he learned in grossly overwritten prose throughout two-thirds of the book.The other third is written in gross language. He makes himself the protagonist/hero, yet you never get to know what kind of man that character is - except ego driven in fiction as well.The plot had potential, as did the underlying theme of Dante's soul-searching and difficulties writing his classic. None of it came off, however.Perhaps the best part was a thirty page diatribe about the publishing industry.If ever a book was "jus' showin' off" this was it. I am sorry so much potential was wasted.
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