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Title: Not a winner
Review: To shortlist this ponderous story for the Booker Prize is almost as bad as giving the prize to Ian McEwan for his insubstantial 'Amsterdam'. The beginning of 'The Deposition' roused my interest a little, and I was hopeful that there would be a worthwhile story beyond the opening chapter. I was to be sadly disappointed. Despite increasing boredom, I plodded on, hopeful that things would improve, but was disappointed at the end. And those dreadful footnotes... (aren't I clever, they say).As one reviewer so aptly put it 'Brian O'Doherty's prose is excellent and, if he could pick a better subject (more content and less waffle) I'm sure he'd end up with a best-seller'.
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