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Title: Good story but Difficult to read
Review: The story in this book is clever and humorous but the author's attempt to write in a sort of Elizabethan English akin to Shakespeare is a clumsily annoying contrivance that makes it unnecessarily hard to decipher. This forced archaic manner of speech the author used for the characters severely detracts from the enjoyment of what is a good plot. One gets the sense that the author is torn between making the characters speak as though they were from a Grimm fairy tale one minute and then like they are a bad stereotype of a hillbilly the next. I had an easier time reading James Joyce's "Ulysses".
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