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Review title: A marginally better read than the phone book.
Product review: An intriguing central idea, explored by a very talented author (his previous, books, anyway). Here, he does nothing with the idea except bat it around like a bored cat with a worn-out cat toy, before abandoning the novel in a limp conclusion. The characters are all bad stereotypes which only cheapen the points he occasionally tries to make in the murky swill of aimless text. It is one of the most utterly pointless books I have ever read, and a complete waste of time. His other books, however, are brilliant, so read one of those instead.
