Title: FORENSIC UGLINESS PRETENDING TO BE WRITING
Product review: I am truly tired of mass market entertainers like Baldacci stooping to the cheap trick of trying to gross-out their readers with detailed, graphic descriptions of grisely, ugly murder scenes. This is art? This is entertainment? Maybe for psychopathic teenagers.Good writing starts with good ideas. A murder may be a necessary plot element, but here Baldacci turns them into lovingly-rendered snuff films, the details of which do nothing to advance the plot. Meanwhile, his live characters are cardboard cartoons tossed off with a few sentences. Forensic Shock and Awe instead of real art. What a waste of time, paper, and ink. Should sell well to the boob-tube masses. They love torture and forensics.
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