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Review title: Disappointing
Product review: Rice is a brilliant writer, and her style and ideology is always brilliant, playfully convoluted, and alluring. So why was this book so lifeless and difficult to read? I struggled through the first part, as I have never done with any other contemporary novel (technical manuals, Middle English literature yes), and where was the payoff? At least when I struggled through Dante and The Canterbury Tales, I could at least brag about my accomplishment ;) I will view this book as an experiment and forget it ever happened.
