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Review title: A very dull book
Product review: Quite why this book has been talked about so much is beyond me.It has to rate amongst the most dull books I've read this year. If a book is going to be this tedious I expect to get some payoff in terms of learning something about humanity but sadly this is not the case.The formula seems to consist of an basic, unintriging detective story which could be told in about 10 pages broken up with page after page of dreary character description. This would be OK if you could care less about any of the characters but you can't. They all seem so mundane. Why do I need to know about the in's and out's and then some of the police deputies reaction to a seeing a corpse. It's not like the author has any real insight into it anyway.I came away with the feeling that the author was trying so hard to be thought of as serious that he just comes up as pretentious. Yes he can write but I question the importance (and definately the interest) of what he has to say.
