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Title: Not Really A Novel; A Bore
Review: This is an allegorical work. The characters are meant as Symbols of Something Else, which is vaguely menacing. They're two-dimensional, simplistic peasant types. They could have been drawn with a lot more psychological insight, but instead, they are cardboard characters, in a staged world, and the narrative voice can put you to sleep as it moves them along. As another reviewer pointed out, the gist of the book is apparent right away, and nothing that happens changes anything. There is no suspense, no character development, nothing of particular interest except some of the narrator's observations, and those are not stellar. Even the dog isn't that sympathetic.For how this should have been written, please see One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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