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Title: Not Block's Best Effort
Review: Normally what I expect from a Lawrence Block book is a plot-driven book with interesting characters. Small Town is a character-driven book, with a meandering plot that moves very slowly. And every one of the characters in this book is unlikeable. The book is filled with long stretches of these characters musings and they just extremely tedious. Even the kinky sex, which you would expect would spice things up, is so over-wrought that it too becomes tedious after a while.I listened to this as an audio book, and I kept plowing through it thinking it would get better since it was after all a Lawrence Block book. It didn't, and it was a relief when it finally ended.
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