Title: Out of Date
Review: This book was first published in 1920 and reads like it took place even earlier. The writing is overly flowerly, stilted and excessively polite. As the author recounted conversations he had with the Initiate and other people, I was left thinking "no one talks this way,did they ever"? The author says the Initiate instructed him to write in a "quaint" manner but I found the style lacking in realism, drama and wonder. It seemed to trivialize the issues and events and rob the story of any compelling power.
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