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Title: One of the best books you'll ever read.. IF you're not stupid.
Review: After reading the few negative reviews of this book, it occurred to me that the people who wrote them just don't seem to realize that Trevanian was making fun of them. Shibumi is a parody of the "super spy" genre- something Trevanians fans have always realized. Trevanian himself was always mystified to learn that there were people out there that weren't in on the joke- it seemed obvious to him. The people who are complaining about how ridiculously "perfect" the protagonist is at everything are just too slow to catch on to the fact that the entire point of the novel is to play off as many spy tropes as possible.
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