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Review title: Bel Canto - For Whom the Bell Toils
Product review: I fail to see why this book is acclaimed. While the subject is timely "terrorism and kidnapping in an unnamed 3rd world Latin American venue", the plot is tedious, and implausible. Worse, the author spends 50% of the novel telling the reader about the voice of a primadonna...yes...a selfish primadonna and by the end of the book we are supposed to like her??? Only a quarter of the way into the book I had tinninitis because I was so sick of listening/reading about The Voice. Other characters are woven in but are very stereotypical. The ending is so improbable...it seems the author ran out of time or ink and certainly creativity. Maybe not, since there is only the slightest plot and a boring preponderance of adjectival description of operatic voice. This book could have been saved if there had been some real history woven in or even some real geography a la James Michener...some redeeming value.
