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Review title: Too fine
Product review: The first 100 pages were quite a delight - there's a strong feeling of old-fashioned European intelligence in this book, as well as some impressing ponderings on the basic questions of existence. The beginning was also quite slow, and I thought the story would speed up towards the end, but as it is, this never happened.It seems to me that the author simply didn't know what to do with his ideas. The intelligence fades into snobism, the metaphysics go totally out of control, the plot drags on and makes in the end every page a battle you have to win. And the solution of the mystery... well, that was just unbelievable. And artificial.Two stars for the great European irony, which I prefer any day over American banality, and also for the chess-player Munoz, which I think was the only interesting character in the book. Did someone mention The Name Of The Rose? Well, there's a difference wider than the ocean between Spain and Italy...
