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Title: What a wretched book
Review: I loved Doomsday Book. When I saw another Connie Willis book, I bought it without question. How disappointed I was. It starts off with pages after pages of contrived impediments to two main characters meeting and getting together. Then it moves on to hundreds of pages of "oohh if I could just think of something." Back and forth, driving around and back, doing the same thing over and over again. We have two MDs who are supposed to be smart, but they are so willfully ignorant that they can't learn anything about anything. AARGH! I finally gave up after about five hundred pages. I skimmed the rest of the book to confirm that it was going to be as tedious and boring as the first part. It was! Into the trash can! With a good editor, this book could have easily been reduced to a hundred pages or less. It might have been good then. As it was it was a terribly overlong, contrived, tooth extraction.
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