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Title: Ponderous, pedantic, and pretentious
Review: It's not so much that this novel is both immoral and grotesque (which it is), but that the love that is supposed to bind it together is so preposterous as to make the novel unreadable. I found myself giving up around page 100, frustrated by the all-too-precious prose and the absurd idea of a man who's had his kidney removed by a woman only to fall in love with her. I don't know about you, but there's only so far I can stretch a metaphor. Take away my kidney, and that's where I draw the line.UPDATED: It was very interesting to see how all the bad reviews of this novel received multiple unhelpful votes while none of the good reviews did. I wonder who the voters are? Can you say author's friends and family?
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