Title: Tossed it in the garbage after 80 pages
Product review: I purchased this book based on rave reviews, and the fact that it was a New York Times bestseller. It started off with a reasonably compelling premise, then slowly lost my interest. After 80 pages I realized I was totally disengaged. The writing is pretty vulgar, and the story wrapped around the goings on of a blue collar neighborhood that I found equally depressing and unstimulating. I soon realized I was investing valuable time into a story whose outcome couldn't have interested me less(inherant to a "mystery" novel is that one should care how it ends)On the other hand, if I was in solitary confinement and Mystic River was the only book available to me, I'm sure I would have finished it.
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