Title: Fascinating but flawed
Product review: This book is well worth reading for its vividly drawn characters, particularly Vautrin, and its unsparing portrayal of the collision between Parisian high society and its criminal elements. It is so overplotted, however, particularly in the later sections, that it becomes implausible. While it always holds the reader's interest, in the end it does not compel belief.
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