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Review title: It's been done many times before
Product review: Coming to this site, I am pleased to see that my opinion about this book doesn't stand alone. I don't see why this book has received the accolades it has. The plot itself is manageable enough, but I think that the writer's style was deliberate and slow to the point where I felt he became TOO conscious of his technique, and this became apparent on paper. It wasn't until I was already 150 pages into the book that I determined that I had read too much to simply toss it aside, and that for the sake of the Pen/Faulkner award it garnered, I should try to read it to completion. Now I wonder why I did. I guess the love story was compelling/sad in that manufactured kind of way, but this coupled with the author's contrived style ( of long, rambling descriptions) made it all feel a bit too force-fed.
