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Title: A huge yawn
Review: I am perplexed by the rave reviews this book is getting on this web site (with a couple of exceptions). I find this book a tremendous bore. It's wordy beyond belief, and its central character is a boring old man who, for some unknown reason, has captured the affections of a bunch of anti-establishment teenagers. The improbable nature of the plot (that the narrator already knows half of the teenagers before catching up with them in Spain) detracts from the message of the narrative, though some of the individual experiences were no doubt true to the time in which the novel is set. I'm about halfway through it and I can't bear to read another word.
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