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Title: Don't believe the hype on this one.
Review: I bought this book because of recommendations posted on a couple of boards (turns out they were all posted by the same person) and was very disappointed. The writing is heavy-handed and hard to slog through and the plot fragmented. It is not particularly original despite the over-blown jacket copy (Rushdie? I don't think so.). I gave to my father-in-law to read and he couldn't get through it, saying it was what they used to call 'turgid prose'.
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