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Review title: Sorely Disappointing
Product review: I have read all Russo's novels. "The Risk Pool" is minor realist classic literature. "Nobody's Fool" and "Mowhawk" were very good, traditional mid-list reads, like the books of John Hassler. I ran out to buy his books in hardback. I thought "Straight Man," another mediocre academic novel, was an aberration-it wasn't. I wonder if he wrote the movie (or made-for-TV) script in tandem for "Empire Falls"? It is the weakest link. The main character's model was probably Charlie Brown. This novel is so dull it could have been concocted by a marketing team, except that even a marketing team would have insisted on better editing to hasten the lumbering prose in the first two-thirds of the book. I feel personally betrayed by Russo; so few write convincingly about working class people. But he's another brand name now and can continue to write dull fare and make money. For what it's worth, he's off this reader's list.
