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Title: A wasted afternoon
Review: This is one of the worst books I've read in a while, and I'm shocked that Stephen King liked it. My guess is that he is applauding the complete lack of competetion in the book. Any author who, like this one, starts with a great premise and adds adequate characterization (but not to the point that I cared about any of the characters) and then completely forgets to include a plot should be spanked in public. I kept waiting for the characters to try to figure out their situation, for something to actually happen, but nothing happened at all. The author presented various clues to the situation and then just let them lie there. If this story had been told around a fire in the depths of winter in a Norse village, the storyteller would have been killed and eaten.
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