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Title: SO not scary .....
Review: I used to love reading Simmons - but no more. It's seems as if he goes to the library, reads up on a subject, then sprinkles the findings of his research into his latest novel - whether it has anything to do with the story or not. In this case: not. There's a blurb on the back cover from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which says, "One of the scariest and most unnerving ghost stories to come along in quite some time." Wow - I wonder what that guy was smoking. The tip off should have been the blurb by Stephen King on the cover which says, "I am in awe of Dan Simmons", which doesn't refer to this book or ANY book. He's probably in awe that Simmons can get away with publishing this crap.
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