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Title: Huge Disappointment
Review: Several choice words come to mind with respect to this book--contrived, banal, two-dimensional are just a few. Such a wonderful premise--filling in the blanks of history with fictional, hopefully plausible, details. But to reduce Charbonneau to essentially nothing more than a sex-crazed, blathering idiot, Sacajawea to a mute, ineffectual slave and Lewis to a bipolar, social misfit narrows the scope of possibilities rather than increases them.Add that to a nearly impossible-to-read narrative with hackneyed writing, very little action with regard to the actual exploration, and voila! One of the worst reads of the year. Were no editors involved in the making of this book?
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