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Title: Uncompelling, boring - how to give zero stars?
Review: This book has some similarities with "Shibumi" - the general anti-West/anti-American tone; the one-dimensional characters. But "Shibumi" was still interesting, whereas "Incident" is totally uncompelling after the first one-sixth of the book. The negative sermonizing and one-dimensionality are much more pronounced here, though, and really wear on the reader rather quickly. The story and setting are bleak and heartless.And an overdose of exclamation points, which gives a cartoonish quality to the book, although he seeks to "recreate" a fictional history. Although some dialogue is amusing, it's hard to recommend even one portion of this book as worth reading.If you liked this book, you probably won't mind Anne Rice's "Servant of the Bones" and other similar disasters.
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