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Title: Turgid, inept, wooden characterisation
Review: If this had been advertised as an airport novel I would not have objected to it so strongly, but I simply feel ripped off. It's hardly a novel, let alone a great work of literature. The characters are half-dimensional and often barely credible, it's badly written, its ovewhelmingly pretentious:one can see the author has a Grand Scheme to write an Epic Sweeping Novel, but he doesn't begin to pull it off. Frankly doesn't rate even one star. I'd rather read a Jeffrey Archer. No, I didn't like it at all.
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