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Title: Cute short story written as a novella
Review: You must admit that the first few pages of the book, as the reader learns of William's story, are cute, endearing and funny. However, after 20 pages of this, it was already too much. The 100 pages that follow continue to be too much! The idea of exploring an underachiever's mindset is interesting and possibly what attracted most readers to the book, as I think many people at least wonder if they have fulfilled their "potential." However, all William does is revel in it--he does little to illuminate the reasons for it in him or in others. The book seems to simply rehash William's unchanging mindset, which, granted, is the idea--he is a devoted underachiever, and perhaps underachieves by telling a story of an awkward length. But the book really needed to be much shorter or much longer. William is too one-dimensional to interest us for the length of this short novel.
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