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Title: Manages to make the French Revolution dull
Review: Have no idea how Mantel managed to do this, but by keeping every iconic scene "off-camera" despite this being a 700 page tome, she's managed to make a novel about the French Revolution dull and plodding. Characterization is poor, with many key characters indistinguishable all the way til the end, focus is off so we have side characters appearing briefly centre-stage then disappearing forever, and the style shifts abruptly from play-like dialogue to stream of consciousness to newspaper reports with little purpose behind it. A truly amateurish effort and really, really badly edited. Can't believe the author won a Booker - she must have improved vastly or had connections with the literary establishment. If you don't like it a quarter of the way in I would suggest you not waste your time on this novel. I rarely return books but simply had to with this one.
