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Title: hasn't figured out her genre
Review: I can't quite figure out what's wrong with Elinor Lipman's novels. Nothing has touched The Inn at Lake Devine. She's clearly an intellectual, as evidenced by her language, but her characters all sound the same. They're fairly intellectual too, with lots of clever wordlplay. But the plots are predictable and the characters all sound entirely the same. Lipman falls just short of being a truly comedic writer.
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