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Title: Dreadful
Review: I just stopped reading it ... I tried, I really did, I wanted to know what was going on, what would happen with the characters, but the writing is just so awful. I find myself constantly stumbling over sentences, having to go back to parse through them slowly to see if I can figure out what he's getting at. Sometimes I get it ... other times I'm still left wondering what they hell he's trying to say.I read Uris in the past, and enjoyed his work. But this is just dreadful, and to be quite honest I was left wondering if perhaps he wasn't getting a little senile by the time he got to this book ... the writing is just so obtuse, so strangely structured, that there seemed to be something seriously wrong with the writer. Either, as some other reviewers have suggested, a ghost writer wrote the book, or Leon Uris was in serious decline by the time he wrote this. Either way, the publisher should have fixed it.
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