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Title: Painful, dull slog thru first 400 pages.
Review: This was my first Conroy book and it will be my last. The only reason that I stuck with the book through he first 400 painful and dull pages was because my sister in law, whom I respect, recommended this book to me. The characters are flat and nasty for the most part - a bad combination. Pat Conroy would have flunked any high school grammer test and I was entirely sick of his clumsy similes. The low point for me was when a female character in the book, who barely escaped the holocaust and retained her European Jewish childhood culture, used the words "did me" to describe her rape by enemy soldiers.The only reason this deserves any stars is for the final 150 or so pages when the main characters come together to face the truth about their lives and feelings.
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