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Review title: Book Built Around One Joke
Product review: I love Alex McCall Smith's stuff, but this is pretty lightweight. There is one very funny line and premise, but it could have been delivered in a 3 page short story. If he had made the misfortunes of the Professor more profound or more ironic it would make for a more entertaining series, but unlike Mme Remotswe of the Botswana books, he never really gets under the skin of the characters, puts them in interesting places, or touches on anything but the pretensions of academia.
