Title: Gave up after six hours
Review: This book is a collection of novellas. The first, about a man on a ship going to California during the 1849 gold rush, is OK. The second is an enjoyable imitation of Oscar Wilde. The third is an execrable crime thriller that piles cliche on cliche, without a shred of plausible story or an interesting character. The writing wouldn't have passed a freshman English class. I suffered through that hoping the fourth novella would be better. Again a completely implausible, cliche-ridden fantasy, this time about a publisher making a fortune from a badly written novel. I gave up one-third of the way through this book.
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