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Title: A "could have been" interesting fable that didn't work for me
Review: I really liked Tom Franklin's first novel, "Hell at the Breech." But I thought this little novel was just plain silly. I'm sure Franklin intended the orgy of blood, violence, perversion, sadism, etc. etc. to make a larger point, ... I just missed it.To me, it was like a really bad B-movie, maybe like the "chain saw massacre" thing, just not as clean, wholesome, or compassionate.According to the list of positive reviews listed inside the cover, a bunch of critics apparently hailed this as fine, cutting-edge literary something. I thought it was preposterous. I might have felt differently if there had been a shred of plausibility, but this was all so over-the-top, I couldn't really buy into any of it.
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