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Review title: Splat
Product review: I really wanted to like this book. I love Harry Potter, I love Douglas Adams. I bought this and expected to get it home and devour it. Instead, I could barely bring myself to finish it. I have nothing against cleverly constructed alternate realities, but this was instead an alternate reality of pure cleverness, awash in puns and "highbrow" literary references that made me feel like I was being sassed at by a smart-alecky pre-teen bookworm. The writing was flat and trite, suited more to internet fanfic than a published novel. The characters were transparent, existing as not much more than stock caricatures with clever names and added, apparently, as needed, with no life of their own. Thursday Next herself failed to materialize at all. My advice: save yourself the crushing disappointment and don't even read the tantalizing book jacket - just pass this by and read, well, anything else.
