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Title: Falls Flat
Review: This semi-Orwellian novel has a potentially gripping idea that could have been developed into a deeply resonant exploration of the triumph of spirit over the fraility of our bodily natures. But the novel becomes a bore, always soliciting the reader's sympathy but never earning it. The prose is flat, the characters unreachable, and the plot falls victim to the author's (no doubt brave) attempt to make it reflect the unfeeling system that has engineered the cruel world in which the action takes place. After the first few chapters, you've got all you are going to get from this book. There's little point in going on.
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