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Review title: Too precious by half
Product review: I was really hoping for more, I like Chris Elliot! But this book seriously disappointed me. It's too precious for it's own good, with self-conscious wordplay that tries too hard to be funny and characters constructed solely for the purpose of jokes that never pay off. Like Saturday Night Live skits of late, it probably sounded better when it was pitched.The reviews here comparing this to The Da Vinci Code aren't even in the ballpark - the "mystery" in this book is a bare skeleton that never takes life. It's more like Daniel Pinkwater on a very bad day. The only time the book is mildly amusing is when the story flashes forward to modern times with Elliot poking fun at his own low wattage celebrity-hood. Maybe there's a book there - but not here.
