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Review title: Flat
Product review: Look, I'm seriously in the minority here. But, I think that the writing is flat and dull and that the whole book is tedious. It's at least 200 pages too long. There is some excitement in the final 150 pages, but the payoff is limited at best. Its good points include describing turn of the century NYC in a way that makes life today seem glorious and hopeful. We've come a long way, and Carr does a good job making that clear. But, narrator Moore is a bore; the interesting characters --Cyrus, Stevie, the two detective brothers, Mary--are given short shrift; there is almost no spark between the characters at all.Carr is a terrific essayist and letter writer. Is that his real gift? To find out, I'd have to read a second novel and I don't know that I'm willing to do that.
