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Title: A Simple Book
Review: Early on, I knew where all the plot trails had to end up. Along the way, equally predictable horror and gore; still, Smith's characters were interesting and complex, and therefore enough to keep me reading till the end.My $.02: a fine writer harnessed to a lame premise. Smith is a brilliant observer of humans in extremis, but horror is not his genre; the peril his characters face should be real, and of their own making -- not Audrey II.I'm sure a decent scary movie is on the boards right now; in fact, this story should have gone right to script.
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