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Title: excruciating
Review: This is really one bad book, trendy, safe (as one reviewer has already noted) and completely dispensable. No part of it is worse than the title story. If this has any value at all, it is as time-capsule fodder; it's a perfect indicator of where American literature is right now, and it won't take up as much space as DeLillo's Underworld.
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