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Title: All Flash , No Heart
Review: This book is packaged as a memoir of sorts ,but it reads more like a John Irving novel in early pre development . Flatly episodic , each page seems to be trying to be more outragous than the last , but unlike the typical Irving novel ,there is no build up ,little character devolpment ,and after a time the reader grows weary of incidents which try too hard to be shocking.What is mostly lacking though in this supposed memoir is any true picture of the individuals involved ,any sense of sympathy for them as people - instead we are left with one strange incident after another ,an example of which finds various characters attempting to divine the future from their feces ;indeed an entire chapter is given over to detailing this dubious eneterprise.Finally , Scissors is like a Henny Youngman vaudeville routine - occassional flashes of humor escape from onslaught, but in the end what we are left with is an empty and unsatisfying experience , all flash and no heart.
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