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Title: Disappointing
Review: I purchased this on the recommendation of a friend, who told me that it was the best book of the year. I am reevaluating the value of that friendship. This novel is an object lesson for anyone who thinks that conceiving a gimmick is a sufficient reason to write a novel. The author is an imaginative man, but a poor writer. He does not have the technical skill that would be necessary to pull off this novel's central conceit. The novel is structured as though the main narrator has written an afterword to her brother's book. The brother then annotates the script of the main narrator. The main narration is poorly written, and the annotation does not differ stylistically from the subject script. I like weird and imaginative fiction a lot, but this book falls well below the lower limit of acceptable craftsmanship.
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