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Title: Tedium at its best
Review: The best moments of this novel come in its opening lines. Unfortunately, it appears to stop dead after the first paragraph. James is much too concerned with flaunting her verbosity, and gives little regard to the time and effort the reader must expend in order to get through her book. Lengthy description abutts tediously expository dialogue, taunting the reader to skim through pages at a time, desperately searching for some thread of plot that hasn't been hopelessly knotted about some gargantuan block of sludgy narrative. James must learn the value of economy - there are plenty of other writers in the world, and we simply don't have time for all the words in Original Sin.
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