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Title: a wordy, uninteresting "WordFest"
Review: Someone has to balance the surfeit of obsequious praise lavished on this pretentiously written book, so I'm obliging. Chabon even uses words that are not in the dictionary, e.g., deinotherian. I realized halfway through the novel that I cared not a whit for any of the dissolute characters or what happened to them. I originally thought I would read the book then rent the film to see the characters rendered alive. To endure their various travails once more is too much for moi.
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