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Title: awkward and bloated
Review: I can't understand the fuss about Richard Ford. How can someone use so many words to say so little? The characters are caricatures. They speak like they're reading a script and are bored with it. They speak like the reader is in the room and they must explain everything to him or her because they assume he or she is too stupid to pick it up on their own. Overall the writing seems typical of what is often mistaken as poetic, but is really just overwritten.Oh, and there is no story here.
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