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Title: Insufferable even for a book nut
Review: I read voraciously; I almost read for a living in almost every genre there is. I'm not one of the majority of Americans who read an average of one book a year. At least you know where I'm coming from when I say that I barely made it through the first 30-40 pages of this tome. It reminded me of old high school friends who constantly tried to make faces or hoot out tiresome jokes or recite plays on words that left the rest of us either groaning in disgust or avoiding the person entirely.I have no idea how this won a prestigious award or garnered so many positive reviews. Maybe our tastes have sunk this low that Toole's suicide somehow places him in that rarefied air of the great "misunderstood" writer who was really trying to communicate complex truth in seemingly ridiculous narrative. No, I think it was a foolish man writing foolishness.
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