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Title: Too Many Words for So Little Substance
Review: This really won an Edgar? Seriously? I can only assume it was a really down year for the Mystery genre.The central character in this book, Joe, is painfully boring. Painfully, excruciatingly boring. And yet, Parker feels the need to expound on and on and on about every tiny little detail of Joe's entire life. Parker gives us boundless information about Joe, none - well, almost none - of which is relevant to the plot.Midway through the book, if somebody had just stepped in and killed Joe, I'd have wept with joy. Nice payback for him torturing me with his boring character.If I'd checked this book out of the library, I'd never have finished it. And as it turns out, that would have been for the best, as this book had one of the worst non-ending ever.
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