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Title: Bland
Review: I just read this book after remembering not liking parts of the original movie I saw, hoping the actual work the movie had been based on was better. It wasn't, it was worse. The author kept referencing various other points of literature and music, including direct Joy Division quotations in the titles and dialogue (nothing wrong Joy Division of course, but utilizing pre-existing titles and threads, as well as a good bit of the layout and artwork, from somebody else's aesthetic concept is just plain lazy); as well as other various poets, writers, and even an entire Cure song. Very cardboard cutout stock, characters, zero development, and no, the lead character was not very developed either. An adolescent boring read, though mercifully quick.
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