Title: Nice try, but no cigar.
Review: Night after night, I just couldn't put the book down. That's because I kept hoping to come across the laughs promised by the blurbs on the book's jacket. I never found any; maybe you just had to be there. Nevertheless, I can't insult the author by giving the book just one star, because writing is hard work. So, two stars it is.
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