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Title: Not bad, not great.
Review: I have mixed feelings regarding this book. It wasn't until the final 50 or so pages that I saw any glimpse of humanity in these characters. Ellis does a good job of nailing their vacuous lives but it became reduntant and boring. At the end the narrator realizes the horror of it all and it ends on a hopeful note - though it is not a wrap-it-all-up happy ending, thankfully. Ellis' habit of describing wardrobe is seriously annoying and useless except to date the novel. And any comparison to "Catcher in the Rye" is laughable. Why would Gen. X need a "Catcher in the Rye" anyway? It already has THE "Catcher in the Rye."
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