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Title: TEDIOUS, PRETENTIOUS, POORLY WRITTEN AND NOT EDITED!!!!!
Review: There's something about the writing of this book that makes you want to put a sock in the writer's mouth, or tie his hands together so he can't write another word. My God is this a prentious piece of tripe. I don't usually agree with NY Times book critic Janet Maslin but this time she hit it on the nose by saying this was nothing but a tedious book of lists with no real context. I fell asleep five pages into it. It seems Gross is trying to impress us with all the research he did, and maybe he did do all that work. But a good writer knows how to synthesize and boil it down into readable form. This book is just not readable. And i have to agree with one of the other Anazon reviewers who asserts that the positive reviews are from the writers friends. They'd have to be because the book just doesn't deserve any praise. The story is jagged and unfocused. It was a great idea -- on paper. But one that was not realized by Gross.
