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Title: Let Down
Review: Gai-Jin was heavy reading. As much as I had enojyed Clavell's previous novels, the prose in Gai-Jin read like an author stumbling through a long and complicated story. Subjects changed mid-paragraph; long rambling and purple prose abutting coarse and violent actions; suspended action with long periods of inconsequntial thoughts and descriptions; rapid changes of third and first person thoughts and dialogue; rapid changes of peoples' characters; uses of aliases and new names suddenly appearing with little or no introduction, etc. etc. Finally, the plot itself held promise but was not realized. It seems that Clavell anticipated writing a sequel that never came about.
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