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Title: Loved the characters; language juvenile
Review: Doyle obviously has a feel for his characters but, please, I find it very difficult to believe that a grown man with grown children would habitually speak with the grossness usually employed by adolescent boys. Wonder if anyone has counted the number of "fucks" Jimmy Sr. uses in a 311-page book--bet the percentage of the total words would be a shocker. Yep, I'm sombody's grandmother, but I'm also a totally devoted reader of great fiction written in all styles and tones; Doyle's redundant use of the "F" word was tiresome and detracted from his otherwise fine story and characters.
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