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Title: Depressing and tasteless
Review: Having enjoyed a few of John Updike's books, I pounced on this at the library. I forced myself to read until the end, but it was so depressing and so cringe-worthy that it literally choked me to finish it. The storytelling I can find little fault with, and perhaps it's this very talent which was so good at making me cringe and turn away in disgust at many parts of the book. I'm quite open-minded in my selection of reading material and the erotica in this is nothing to what I have read in many other books, but some things just cross the line of humanity and I was shocked that he was allowed to keep such terrible innuendo hinting at the worst possible perversion in this book. Read only if you don't mind being further affected by the worst of humanity in our current world. I have regretted few books as much as I regretted this one and I may as well just read a daily newspaper depicting the same stories to get the same depressing effect.
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