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Title: Boring beyond boring
Review: Perhaps if Pears had attempted to write a novel with characters and ideas to hold the reader's interest instead of attempting a graduate thesis, this might be something one would wish to read. As it stands, it is a major disappointment, intellectually pretentious, and signifies nothing. It is also about time we stop trying to compare these also-rans with Umberto Ecco's Name of the Rose which still towers over all newcomers.
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