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Title: Writer is so pretentious, it becomes unreadable
Review: Remember the character of Diane from Cheers? The joke of her character, was a characterization of someone who is over the top pretentious. Well, if you were a fan of the show, picture an episode where they were exagerating her character for a joke, and you have Simon Winchester. "Stepping out of my tent and gazing upon Gemini and..." No, seriously, that is really a line from the book.Also, there are points in the book where you have to play six degrees of Kevin Bacon, to figure out how what he's talking about, has anything to do with the big quake.While I thought a book about the 1906 quake that devastated San Francisco would be interesting, I couldn't finish this book.
