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Title: Insufferably Pretentious, but...
Review: While I found Last Day strictly the work of an untalented amateur and glaringly pretentious, one must give the writer credit for addressing some of the excesses of the church. Whether discriminating readers are willing to wade through 600+ pages of terrible writing to arrive at all too obvious conclusions is doubtful. Such a windy, fitfully told story hardly does justice to the injustices of the church. Here, the issues are trivialized as semi-comic plot devices to advance a series of soap opera episodes involving many uninvolving characters. Readers may wince at this cliche ridden novel's crudeness, but it's badly written meanness permeates and obscures legitimate concerns. This subject deserves the attention of a gifted author instead of this third-rate thriller-with-a-message misfire.
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