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Title: Put it down after the first couple pages of whining
Review: I bought this book b/c it made the NYT Book Review list of top novels, but the author began the novel whining - that's the only way to describe it, whining - that slick willie was treated oh so unfairly by we churchgoing middle-America do-gooders (I am a Southern moderate atheist who despises the Clintons for what they are - common trash) But it isn't the politics, per se, that that turned me away from the novel, I just find it hard to believe that such temporal political commentary can be a prelude to a work of any depth, or even a mark of a serious novelist, for that matter. And so I don't want to waste my time with it. If he wants to sermonize he should get the NYT or someone else to publish a column and not insult me by injecting his whining into what can only dubiously be termed 'a novel'.
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