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Title: Late Summer: Early Afternoon
Review: I bought this book on the strength of some other books by this author. After plowing through about 90 some pages and not being able to make heads or tails of what was going on it finally dawned on me that this was a later volume of some ongoing series. I scoured the cover to see if there was some indication of this, but found nothing. A quick visit to Amazon revealed the truth however. This pile of merde is part of a much larger pile of merde going back to Symphony. I have seen other authors attempt to employ cinamatic idioms, but none fail worse than Grant does in this book. From what I have read in this and In The Fog Charles Grant is a great editor, but his own story telling ability sorely lacks. The epitome of all style and no substance.Go buy the revised version of The Stand and pass on this one. In fact I'll be passing on all future Charles Grant because of the dirty trick he played with this one. Gotta go now and throw the book in the trash.
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