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Title: The most overwritten book I've seen in years
Review: This is a perfect example of today's extremely overwritten book. This book should have been half of its 580 page length. The overall story idea was good, but the execution -- the endless minutiae, the overkill on the themes of the upperclass black -- just turned into a complete mess. The hokey cliffhangers that formed the basis for ending almost every chapter were so amateurish and formulaic I was actually embarrassed for the author.What's become of today's editors? Why don't they edit (and cut) anymore? What's become of the single detail that commutes volumes about a situation, a character? This was an assault on my patience. I had to bail out after getting half-way through it. Guess I'll have to wait for the movie version to find out what happened.
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