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Title: Pointless and forgettable
Review: I've enjoyed John Irving before (Owen Meany, Water-Method Man), but this is the book that finally alters my classification of him from important author to hack popular novelist. This is a dull, meandering story with no believable characters or interesting ideas. The prose style is equally unmemorable. I just don't know why he wrote this.
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