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Title: I don't get it
Review: The gap between the reviewers who liked this book and those that didn't like it is amazing. I read the book a few weeks ago, after seeing so much of the Knoxville Area press, and reading these reviews. My verdict: it's simply poor writing. The characters are all cliches of "drug hell" literature: the listless but salvageable protagonist, the hyper-intelligent and (we are told by the author) "charismatic" drug gang leader, the dutiful drug groupie girlfriends, the "wild and crazy" decadent bunch. The "metaphors" for various evils, etc, fall flat. The reader is expected to be shocked because the author all but says directly "You are reading something shocking." The women characters in particular are one dimensional. Reading this book just didn't prove to be the "gripping" or "couldn't put it down" experience that has been mentioned here.
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