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Title: Good story, bad writing
Review: This book suffers from a general problem with today's fiction writing: too much time spent at writing workshops. I could not get past the overworked prose to enjoy the excellent story to it fullest. The writing is very stilted and inorganic and causes one to ask the writer to put down the gosh darn thesaurus and just let it flow! David Wroblewski's Edgar Sawtelle suffers from this illness, too: a great story marred by strained writing.
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