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Title: A Great Book, Somewhat Flawed
Review: I think what makes this book so interesting is the author's acute attention to the inner feelings these characters experience. Sometimes preachy, always commanding, the novel starts off as a confusing enigma and tries its best to unravel itself for the reader. Unfortunately, that only happens sometimes, and in the middleof the book, leaving the beginning and the end on oppositesides of the crossroads. This is a good book, a VERY good book and worthy of all the attention it is recieving. Mrs. Haynes has madea grand effort to glue such complex and various storylines together, but in the end her language gets in the way. This book is far too clunky and leaden to thoroughly entertain; in the end the meaning is there, but difficult to grab from all the pretentious monologue. Perhaps I'll feeldifferent after a second reading. Somewhat highly reccomended.
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