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Title: Only Potok book I've read and not liked
Review: I wanted to love this book. I expected to love this book. Found an old copy of this in a thrift shop and wondered why I'd never seen it in book shops. Then I read it. I've loved everything else I've read by Chaim Potok, but this book dragged. I felt it had no build, no climax, just kinda strolled along, and then, THE END. I more or less forced my self to finish reading it in stubbornness, and in hopes that the book would pick up, but no... throughout the book I found myself not really caring about any of the characters much.Now, admittedly, I am not Jewish, and and I have only a surface understanding of Kabbalah. While my limited experiences with Judaism has never previously kept me from falling head over heals for a Potok book, it's quite possible that --in this particular case-- it might be ignorance keeping me from seeing any depth to this book.
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