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Title: My God, what an incredibly insipid and uninteresting book.
Review: I am willing to bet anything that not one person who has previously posted here has read this book voluntarily. In fact, I'd wager that 99.9% of the people who have read this book at all have done it as part of some kind of Middle Eastern History unit in 7th grade. This is a freaking textbook, what the heck is it doing masquerading as literature? Whoever wrote it is obviously an anthropologist, a historian maybe, not any kind of writer. Since I, personally, find Middle Eastern culture one of the least interesting ones of all, was it any surprise that I wasn't exactly enthralled by the, ahem, "chilling cliffhangers" (Will Shabanu get to find her camel?) found throughout this unexciting novella?
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