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Title: Hard to get through
Review: I was assigned to read this book for a writing class. Otherwise, I would have put it down after the first couple chapters. It quickly became one of those rambling, boring books where you keep having to read pages again because your mind drifts off. The narrator wasted the reader's time with incoherent stream of consciousness, and used cheap gimmicks (like mentioning lots of obscure facts about really cool bands) to seem cool.There really wasn't a plot even though the book was huge. The most interesting plot thread (a mystery) never got solved! There were way too many coincidences. I'm not a big fan of _Catcher in the Rye_ but it was so much more masterfully written than this book.I am surprised that there have been so many good reviews of this book. I think it's because there may be a lot of people who start reading it and never get through it (and thus, don't end up writing a review). I know I wouldn't have finished it if I hadn't been assigned it.
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