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Title: Classic Crap
Review: While many regard this as an American masterpiece, I can only say that I found the book so boring I barely made it halfway through. James's characters are silly and his words remain firmly mired in an outdated style filled with so many appositives it's hard to figure out exactly what his sentences are supposed to mean. So little is actually said that the reader can only grasp the overall tone and feel without ever quite attaining a sense of individual events. It's too frustrating to make this book an enjoyable read, and I can only think that this book has outlived its welcome on the modern list of classics. It's not completely horrid, though; the style does accurately give a sense of setting, but only in the broadest sense, and it's not enough.
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