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Title: the evil of banality, redux
Review: Want to read an excruciatingly dull book full of boring, petty characters whose sole desire is to return to a sterotype of a British public school? Here ya go.Not to mention, every major plot device in this book can be predicted chapters in advance by any half-competent SF devotee. (And that every major plot turning has been scrupulously signposted with a billboard for the presumably ignorant reader.)The only evils of this book that haven't been hashed and rehashed are: 1) the fact that you're going to spend $25 to come away completely unenlightened about anything that matters; and 2) that the leading literary lights consider this to be a work of the highest caliber.If you want to read about the banality of evil in an engrossing and rich book, go read Michel Faber's "Under the Skin".
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