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Title: Lame Duck Booker Prize finalist
Review: There is not much to say about this book except don't believe the hype. It is a dull read with one dimensional characters, bad dialogue and a hackneyed job of plot construction. As to comments that this book is Kafkaeque due to its "dark" noirish overtones. Wrong. Kafka's works inspired fear and dread about society's compassionless bureaucracy and inhuman conspiracy to sacrifice certain members. The Restraint of Beats inspires nothing, except a desire to read real writers like Kafka.
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