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Title: The Restraint of Readers
Review: This is a story of three men who built high-tension fences for the restraint of beasts but found themselves under the restraint in the end. Editorial review speaks about black humor and promises that "readers will remember this book and laugh, long after they have finished reading it". Some events of the novel are rather black but it is a real slog to find any humor and I do not even smile during reading. The heroes are unattractive, the plot is predictable, the language is poor with perpetual insipid 'alright' and f-words.The real bolt from the blue is that the book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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