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Title: The Biggest Disappointment
Review: I was so excited when I read the author of A SIMPLE PLAN had a new book. Then the press. They were beside themselves. Then I bought the book. It is a generic horror story (SPOILER...if you still want to read the book, pls stop reading this review) with man eating plants. No chapters, pages upon pages of narrative with no dialogue. Laborious descriptions of entering and exiting a well....if one is going to read pulp, let it at least be in bite sizes like James Patterson's books where two pages can constitute a chapter. There is something satisfying about getting to the end of a scene and having experienced first the sense of horror, the scene of horror, and then the escape from horror. In Smith's book, it is an academic, overly written mud field one needs to trog thru.
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