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Title: "Demonology" an exercise in fluff
Review: Of Rick Moody's books, I've read "The Ice Storm" and "Garden State." I liked both of them, although I prefer the film version of "The Ice Storm" to the novel. So I picked up a paperback copy of "Demonology," thinking that it would be equally engaging. I was wrong. I couldn't make it past the first few stories, they were all very thin and flat, and as I was reading, I couldn't help but think, "Who cares?" The first story, "The Mansion on the Hill," was unbelievably slow and tedious to get through, the same was true as I gave him another chance and started reading the subsequent stories, hoping in vain that things would get better. A real disappointment. I would drift off as I was reading, and could have skipped pages and still known what was going on in the plot. A very empty, unsatisfying read. Like expecting a steak dinner and only getting a rice cake.
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