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Title: Literature cliché after cliché
Review: I have read Follett in the past with much satisfaction, particularly "Pillars of the Earth". However, Whiteout made my jaw drop by how truly bad his writing has seemingly become. Its not that his prose is particularly bad, its just that he uses cliché after cliché to formulate Whiteout's story. Some reviewers have pointed out plot holes, but I was irked by simple things dealing with character interactions that seemed way to "convenient". I could go through the text and pull out some examples, but I have already wasted too much of my life by reading it the first time. I like Pillars enough to still potentially read more Follett in the future, but this particular book was flat out laughable. Life is way too short to be reading bad fiction like this.
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