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Title: Am I alone?
Review: Wow, as I read the other reviews I wondered if I had read the same book. Having come to Bernieres through Corelli - which I loved (and again that puts me at odds with many others), I had high hopes for this book, but I thought it overdone and contrived. Maybe I was in the wrong mood? Whereas Corelli had kept me entranced, with smooth easy flowing prose simply wafting me from page to page, Don Emmanuel just grated on me. Corelli was made into an awful movie. I suspect someone will make a movie of Don Emmanuel too, and I'd probably enjoy it - as a flimsy distraction. But the book didn't do it for me.
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