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Title: It's a classic
Review: I am hard pressed to give an example of a sentence from this book that is not so laden with irrelevance that a moment's thought will not entirely dissolve its meaning. I give you the first, as a warning: "We had been here, the ribbon of reminiscences reminded me, many times before." And sentence after sentence, the author just doesn't quit, writing that is. And if you are like me, you will wish he had. Unless, of course, you hate baseball and everything to do with it, or you are a collector of the worst samples of writing in the english language. It's like when you were a kid with a nickel and you wanted to buy some candy, but every time you reached out to take a jaw breaker the guy behind the counter whacked you with a yard stick.
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