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Title: The Mold Coast
Review: This is my first and last DeMille book. After plodding through 630 pages where very little happens, I am left wondering how DeMille became such a blockbuster author. Are his other books better? I am stunned by the number of 5 star reviews here. The writer seems to think that a regional history lesson and overstuffed descriptions compensate for unbelievable characters and a thin story. Athough DeMille tells us it's a satire, I suspect that's just his way of trying to repackage a boring, unsuspenseful thriller.The pompous, self-congratulatory foreward by the author doesn't help either. If you're going to compare yourself to Tom Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'd better have the goods to back it up. Gatsby must be rolling over in his grave.
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