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Title: Overcooked Cynicism can only make a writer worse
Review: "Are you John?" "None other." How could a person answered a stranger like that? How could John Corey could become a detective if all he could do was jerking around to other people in a murder case with a totally unrealistic and absurd attitude? The writing is so loose that until page 100, the jerk detective could only find an ice box was missing on the victims' boat. We only read lot of unnecessary and extremely absurd dialogues between or among unfamiliar people. This time, Demille was totally lost and become a overkilled cynical melodrama writer as unapproriate as the hero, John Corey, as he created. I regret to find all the dialogues in this book were just like adding hollow bricks. A book which could be finished under 250 pages being ballooned into a farce over 500 pages. Such a terrible way to waste the precious paper material
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