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Title: Dull... Stephen King and NYT are wrong
Review: Stephen King loved this book. I didn't.While he tries to imbue the insurance and viatical industries with intrigue and give Omaha Nebraska a noir-ish danger, they just don't fit. Add to that flying sledgehammer tech talk and oenophilist rants. The result is a lot of puffed-up scenes in a book that doesn't really satisfy. There's too much pulp and not enough brain, too much expected or at least predictable plotting, and the industry and city that provide the background for the book just refuse to play ball.
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