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Title: Dull, poorly written
Review: I was anticipating a clever, intellectual style of writing from Smith, but found the book to be a jumbled mess of uninteresting characters and a poorly developed plot. I put it down several times refusing to read any further, but it just bugged me not to finish it. By the end, I was really angry that I wasted my time. The author has very brief moments of clarity or interesting thought, but the book continuously slips back into banality. There's nothing even remotely humorous about it. It's just dull, disjointed (in the last paragraph, out of nowhere, the author addresses the reader directly??) and at times a bit crass for seemingly no good reason. A failed attempt at creating a deep and meaningful novel.
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