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Review title: On your list of novels to read before you die, this should be #5,167,810
Product review: In order to find the time spent reading Bel Canto worthwhile:1) This must be the first novel you've read2) You must have a maudlin passion for maudlin passion3) You are willing (and able) to check any expectations of realism at the front endpaperHow else could a reader accept the artifice of "terrorists" entering a residential structure through air conditioning ducts, unless they are 6-8" tall? I should have stopped reading here, but my curiosity at how this trite, poorly-researched tale could end up in print got the better of me. "There must be a hell of an ending," I thought. Suffice to say that if this unfortunate disaster were plotted based on its banality, the ending was the climax.Possibly the worst book I've ever read.
