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Title: Confusing, Complicated, Boring
Review: Carter writes well sometimes in this effort, although I much prefer his legal writing. And the context for the novel is an interesting one, a black America about which some know little (although not as many know as little as Carter seems to think). The problem here is simple, it's the story: laughably complicated and, ultimately, uninteresting. I'm still not altogether certain as to whom half of the people in the book "work" for (I don't want to get into plot specifics, but the comment betrays a serious failure of the novel). And, worse, I wonder why the Judge didn't just tell Addison the punchline before he died. It would have saved Prof. Carter and the rest of us so much tedium. Sadly, if the author were just another lawyer, no one would care anout this book. I looked forward to it, and I was disappointed.
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