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Title: big disappointment
Review: I enjoyed the spare trajectory of his first book, A SIMPLE PLAN, and hoped for more in this one. Instead we get a very busy, rambling, noisy story full of long, tedious memories from the protagonists, and an utterly improbable story about acid-filled vines that apparently have consciousness. The story line is cluttered with unnecessary sex scenes and a seeming fascination by the author for bodily functions, for we have to know when anyone has to "go" and be treated to details of its passing. Happily, one can skip entire pages of reverie to return to the story line, if you get hooked and have to know how it ends. Boring and contrived.
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