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Title: Absolutely horrible - no I mean painful
Review: First let me say I love the Wind in the Willows and really looked forward to reading this sequel. But it is difficult for me to express in words how Horwood utterly fails to capture the characters and just creates an absolutely painful experience. The original was a masterpiece and the characters - even toad- were gentle, loving creatures, with transcendent subtle nature. These characters are somehow mean, shallow, and just plain awful. Reading it (and I promise you I longed to do so and meet them again) just so ruins these characters that it made me cringe page after page. Why did he do this? Did the positive reviewers fail to see the night and day difference between this and the original. Garbage just garbage.
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