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Title: An entertaining fall from grace
Review: This is the best bad book I couldn't put down.Like most first novels, S.P. reads like the author assigned every detail of his own life to his protagonist. And this down to the most agonizing piece of minutia. We need to believe in the power of Lettieri's imagination, not whether he accurately remembered the color of his fax machine and what it sounded like at 4pm. The writing tends to be melodramatic and awkward in spots, giving away too much of the author's emotional history. Subtlety, sir, mystery, suspense, brave soldier! Hold back, and that which seeps through will be all the more powerful.This said, the book was compelling enough to read in a couple sittings. There was just something about it, an unexplicable charm. And some of the sentences are quite good.
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