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Title: Great Start, Slow Finish
Review: This is a fascinating story of murder on a deserted island. The first half of the book is a riveting, well-developed account of two couples seeking paradise and finding disaster. Descriptions are thorough, and character development is excellent. However the latter-half of the book dealing with the trial is long-winded and somewhat annoying. Bugliosi's entire 5-hour closing argument fills page after tedious page, and I found myself simply skimming over the latter 1/4 if the book. Legal buffs and lawyers will enjoy it, the rest of us will be content to indulge in the characters, the island and the crime, and then simply browse through the ending.
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