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Title: A Stylistic Exercise
Review: After reading four prior Doig novels and loving three of them, I felt that this would be another good read. I was wrong. I found it hard to care about the characters and felt that Doig was relying his overly-stylistic prose rather than developing a story. After reading the other bad reviews, I tend to agree with their characterizations, but will now have to finish the book as I just began the backpacking trip which I is where I tossed the book down in disgust. As an avid hiker and one who has traveled the country Doig writes of, I found the trip account unrealistic and painfully uninformed. The only reason I didn't choose 1 star is that "I hate it" is too strong a statement for a book I couldn't care about.
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