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Title: A dud
Review: I came to this book with high expectations - the author has a high reputation and his latest book is being touted as "The Great American Novel". Despite a mild sense of boredom, a plot that did not really grab me, a complexity that makes great demands of the reader (almost every page has a new character and you don't know which ones are going to be important) and a somewhat turgid style I stuck with this for over a hundred pages before giving it up and writing it of as a waste of time.
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