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Title: Brutal and Depressing
Review: Reading the first few pages of this book was enough for me. Page five offers, "Thus bagan the tale of the doomed love between he poet and a young girl that was to lead to such a calamitous and cruel ending."Life is calamitous and cruel enough without needing to tell these tales in the cold and precise way of Iain Pears. I read on because I was given the book as a gift and felt I might need to discuss it with my friend. I found the same shallowness (little character developement), interest in cruelty and lack of humanity throughout.I can certainly understand that there are plenty of people that go for this kind of writing. I am writing this review so that it may save a few kinder minds the trouble of buying it.
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