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Title: Blah.
Review: I have read everything he's ever written, and I think a NYTimes reviewer got it right when he said (and I paraphrase) that this is more like a book by a student of John Irving than by the man himself. No good character development, nothing all that intriguing - the best thing about his books is that all the things that happen to the characters are usually believable. Not so in this case, and you don't care about them to boot. He's written much better.
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