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Title: The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Review: The title entices. But the book is unsatisfying. Don't waste time with these characters. They are all selfish, pitiful, co-dependent bores. Carrie Bell's personal quest barely keeps the plot moving forward through settings which are stereo-typical images of New York and the Midwest. Readers are offered a predicatble ending with trite explanations about motives. As for the 'intimate and emotional' thrills, touted on the back cover? They are more like 'guilt trips and loosely defined moral values'. Send this book to the bottom of Clausen's reservoir.
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