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Title: Good best-selling type thriller
Review: For those who enjoy best selling novels, House of Sand and Fog is an enjoyable thriller. The drama of these two parties who fight for a house is well worked through, challenging the reader's simpathy for their causes and experiences. Even though sometimes the characters' mindset seemed rigid and their feelings a bit extreme, I didn't find their portrait to be stereotypical. I could follow their beliefs, their history, their doubts and the unique meaning the house had for each of them. I found that the sexual sub plot was heavy handed at times, skewing my attention from the main drama -- but it wasn't so bad. This story is about misunderstandings, despair and past hurtful lives that come together around a pathetic house. Even though I was eager to know who was going to get the house at the end, I felt this hollow sadness for the characters, and hoped for a good compromise at the end.
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