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Title: Nothing special
Review: Okay, the ratings for this product are stuffed with reviews from the spoken CD and from the novel itself. Obviously, those should be ignored - they were put out by the publishing company and they are only here to prop up the book's rating on Amazon. I have the hardcover edition. This novel is very ordinary. There is nothing wrong about writing about the ordinary lives of ordinary people, as long as it is well-written. This is not. There is plenty of setting description about the small town lifestyle in Vermont, but I found the sensory descriptions weren't especially vivid, even though they seem like they should be. And the characters weren't terribly well-developed either for me to care much about what happens to them. I do see that this is the author's first novel - so I suppose we should give him a break.
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