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Title: The "Little" engine that couldn't
Review: Let me begin by stating that I have enjoyed the first four Bentley Little books that I read ("The Store", "The Association", "The Return" & "The Summoning") but have found the last two ("The Town" and "The Burning") just impossible to get through. Since this review is about "The Burning", let me focus on it.I found the novel to be too draggy almost from the start. Little attempts to tie together 4 disparate characters from across the country to the appearance of a ghostly train that begins to appear to them (and some others) as the book plods along. The characters were not likeable, nor did I really give a rat's patoot about their problems. Not unlike the engine, the book just takes too long to gather up any steam for this reviewer (a firm believer in "too many books, not enough time", by the way).Little throws around a few shocks and more than a little gratuitous sexual scenes, but not enough to keep me around for more than 180 pages of this clunker.
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