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Title: 365 long pages
Review: I am one of those people who are cursed with Once-I-Start-a-Book-I-Have-To-Finnish-It-Syndrome. As a result, I try to always reserve making judgement on a book until the very last page. I have been joyously surprised on several occasions by a last minute twist an author squeezes in which transforms a seemingly endless read into an exciting adventure. I enjoyed the writers' style, and the preliminary development of the characters did draw me in past the `point of no return' (about 10 pages). Unfortunately, after that point, there was very little else pulling me along except the desire to be done with this book. I found each characters' decent into ruin, return to addictions, moral declines, or eventual fates depressing, dull, and down-right annoying after a while. My apologies to Andre Dubus III, after all, who am I to criticize? But this book did nothing for me personally. In all fairness it should be noted, this book was recommended from a family member who DID like it.
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