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Product review: Please note that I am only reviewing the novel "Skeeters Kirby", not the entire 56 volume set (I can't imagine).Ultimately, an unsatisfying book, and not particularly exciting to read either. There's a flatness here, a distancing, as if the author were not quite ready to give of himself. Too many episodes, scenes, characters, are merely fleshed out, cut and dried, with no substance, vigor, or life. Even the title character seems to have no real emotions. Second part of a trilogy. I think this is supposed to be somewhat autobiographical. Set in southern Illinois and Chicago from 1890-1911. The first part is done in a kind of Tom Sawyerish speech, extremely irritating to read. But when he grows out of it, it's still heavy, turgid, flat. Characters come in and go out with dizzying rapidity. However, it is quite obvious that sexual mores were really no different then from now. Even women were quite free.
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