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Title: as stodgy as two-week old birthday cake
Review: this book plods on mechanically, betraying the author's lack of talent for creative writing or his laziness (or both); the characters are superficial and caricatural -- the story implausible, full of convenient (for the author) shortcuts and ultimately plain boring. is brad kidding? this deserves to be his last effort.
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