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Title: Is this the same author who wrote 'Outerbridge Reach'?
Review: 'Outerbridge Reach' was a work of genius (as was 'Children of light'). We peered into charcters' souls and learned lessons through magnificent writing. this is the most pretentious, awful book I've ever read. On page 290, when I still couldn't even visualize a chacter, let alone feel who they are, I quit. I also had no idea of a plot at this point. Here is a sentence that explains how this book is written: "To hear Sonia, Lucas thought, was to be close to Shekhinah." What the heck is 'Shekhinah'? Stone name-drops obscure religious terms as if we should kow them. Hey Bob--you may have researched this stuff; we haven't. This his first novel, 'A Hall of Mirrors'. All the spectacular growth and realism of his last 20 years is gone. And it sucks.
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