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Title: Along Came another mediocre read.
Review: I still maintain this opinion: when I run out of new stories by the really great writers like Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale, Robert Parker and Dean Koontz, I start looking for mediocre writers to fill my reading time. Authors like Stephen King, John Saul, Jonathan Kellerman and James Patterson spring immediately to mind.I get no feeling from any of these characters! They are not real to me, they hold no interest for me. It's like James is practicing characterization with only one goal in mind -- profound mediocrity.The scenes are also dull and choppy. I get no sense of where the story is going because the chapters are monotonously too short and go nowhere.I found these tedious qualities to be evident in the other four books that I have read from this author. I am glad I borrowed them from the library! I shall not read this man's works any more; there's only so much bad literature that one can tolerate before one is compelled to expel it all...
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