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Title: There comes a point in every story.....
Review: There comes a point in works of fiction where most writers back off of the purely descriptive writing and start moving the plot along. Berry never does that in this book. "I'm just saying" for those of you who expect the plot to move the story along that you, the reader, will have to do most of the heavy lifting here.About two-thirds of the way through this book I got really tired of the romance of the pastoral life. I grew up in a setting much like what he describes and it isn't all that lovely. People in Africa are tilling the soil in ways similar to Berry's characters and they don't seem quite as happy as the folks in this book.I have often wondered what era people were wanting to go to to find the "good old days." Now I know. I'm just fine here, thanks,
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