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Title: Inferior Simmons
Review: I love Dan Simmons (especially the Hyperion books), but this one didn't work for me. He's a talented writer, and the book moves, but the whole haunting thing has been done soooooo many times that it really takes a fresh idea to make it worthwhile to read another book like this. This ain't it. I admire him for trying to write about a thoroughly damaged (and unsympathetic) main character. At the same time, I didn't like the character at all, which makes it hard to like a book like this. Full disclosure: I read Summer of Night, and didn't particularly like that either.
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