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Title: Good, but could have been Great
Review: There is a point in Prague where one of the characters, who writes a column for an English newspaper sold in Budapest, begins writing what appears to be a very good column. Somewhere in the middle of it, he's blocked. He types away on his computer that he feels something brilliant will be coming out shortly. It doesn't. That is essentially how I felt about this novel. It starts off strongly. We meet five North American ex-pats living in Budapest in the early nineties. Their lives are interesting, the writing is wonderful and so evocative of that time and place. But....the novel kind of stalls in the middle. Phillips gets lost, introduces a character in a very long sequence that just doesn't really work. There is still much wonderful writing and storytelling in here and it is definitely worth reading. Just don't believe the hype.
