Title: A Turgid and Verbose, Yet Original Novel
Review: I had high expectations for this novel when my wife finished it and told me the entertaining subject. For the first 70 pages I was fully engaged and interested, especially about the fascinating story of the artist who escaped from the Nazis during World War II. Thereafter, I started skipping long sections of the novel owing to redundant descriptions and a very slow pace. Unfortunately, Mr. Chabon took an original subject and got bogged down in excruciating detail. It is indeed ironic that a novel about the fast-paced world of comic book characters reads more like a treatise on the art of the comic book. Perhaps the editor and not the author is at fault.
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