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Title: "Boring Music" would be a better title
Review: I wanted to like this book. Really. It was the selection of the month for my book club, it had come highly recommended by astute friends and most customer reviews were oozing with praise. I did NOT like "Beach Music" however, not even a eentsy-weentsy bit. Here're but a few of my quibbles with the book:. It's far too long and contains too many sub-plots. "Succinct" appears not to be an adjective Conroy understands.. The characters all are pulchritudinous. Ah, but to balance that, Conroy makes them all crazy and/or conflicted.. John Hardin, the brother with schizophrenia,is portrayed in the most demeaning, stereotypical manner. Conroy should be hung by his toenails for contributing to the misunderstanding of and stigma surrounding this serious mental illness.. The "Purple prose" becomes blatantly boring after a very short while. I truly am sorry I wasted so much time on this book.
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