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Review title: Stock Characters = Pulitzer???
Product review: You know how with some books you have to read some sentences over and over because they are so amazingly written? Or because they make you marvel at their wittiness? Or they make a philosophical or spiritual point that takes you by surprise and makes you think? Or you just delight in the originality and spare or lush beauty of the prose?This is not one of those books. If you tend to mentally edit redundancy or banality out of less-than-wonderful writing, you will find this annoying.The stock characters are one dimensional, some to the point of caricature. You can put almost every one in the Good or Bad column and leave them there. There are subcolumns for Heart of Gold, Cantankerous, Cantakerous Heart of Gold, Cartoonishly Boorish, etc. None of them evolve, although Miles, the main character, [SPOILER] discovers he has been duped, and his ex-wife's weight fluctuates. The two stars is generous!
