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Title: I'd rather read the Cliff notes
Review: The writer has shown off his vocabulary - great. Great descriptions of places and characters and then it drags on the plot. He uses chess as a metaphor for life and to explain the plot - great, except for those us who don't play chess and now are made to feel guilty because we don't. The hero is very difficult to like which makes any book difficult to read because you really don't care if the hero ever wins. And... the entire book is so s....l.....o....w. Doesn't Prof Carter know that the world is speeding up - as soundbites everywhere get shorter and shorter? This is heavy and plodding, with no humor at all (do I just imagine that the main character is Prof Carter himself?) I know he has to write a second novel for his $4 million advance - I hope he will do it in half the pages.
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