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Title: Sophomores will like this...
Review: ...if they are still in high school, that is, but h.s. juniors will laugh out loud at how naive and pretentious this book is. Too bad; it had a strong finish, the fell apart rapidly. Only gets two stars because it is well written in parts and moves smartly along. Far too many coincidences, a cariacature philosophy professor (reads like a bad term paper on Nietzche in places) and a cliche-riden middle-aged leftover hippie townie, full of a nice middle-class boy's wholly imaginary idea of how rich people live (buy a copy of "Town and Country" if you really want to know). A silly book, much worse than his earlier "The Fan" which was great. A major disappointment. Omit.
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