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Title: Perfect Sleeping Elixer
Review: Whenever I cannot get to sleep I simply reach for this book and, voila, within a few sentences I am drifting off. James wrote dialog that no one in the world has ever uttered. When the topic is obvious and simple, his characters question one another intensely trying to determine what it is they are talking about. When the topic is strange and hidden, amazingly they all understand each other perfectly and silently. If you are into extremely cerebral, S L O W M O V I N G, non-plot, non-action novels, this is for you. Unfortunately I prefer characters who speak as normal folks do, who motivate in their lives, who don't think themselves to death and who are real. I am truly sorry that HJ considered this his finest work. I much prefer his earlier, more accessible and likeable works such as Daisy Miller.
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