Title: Enthralling, but slightly disappointing
Review: I must say this is an extremely enjoyable, lightning-quick read, but I was a little disappointed overall. I'm giving this 5 stars because it was so much fun and so darned good-hearted, but some of the writing is a bit... er... klunky. A lot of it is written beautifully, but it has an unfinished quality to it. The constant similes - some of them awfully clever - keep much of it from flowing as smoothly as one might like. Chabon also tends to be a bit more obvious than he really needs to be at times. Many sentences seem to have blinking, neon signs pointing to them, saying "This is the book's theme". Those are relatively minor complaints, though. The characters are so likeable and well-developed that I could have forgiven even more.
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