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Title: Tedious
Review: I kept reading, hoping to be rewarded with something interesting at some point but was greatly disappointed. Since this book is told from the perspective of several different characters, every event is told over and over from several points of view, and in tedious detail. Sometimes a new chapter would start and I wouldn't even know who was speaking -- luckily by that point I didn't really care. I ended up skimming over many passages that were written in a bloated and graceless style that seemed like a pitiful attempt to sound Victorian. Rather than being a haunting and mysterious tale, I found this book only to be a bit obscure, and rarely did I stumble upon anything of interest lurking in all of the confusion. I don't understand how it could receive so many positive reviews. I suggest "The Turn of the Screw," by Henry James instead.
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