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Title: Disappointing
Review: While Boyle creates interesting characters and the premise of this story has great potential, I was largely disappointed by this novel. I love TC Boyle's short stories, and I've come to expect great things from him, so when this novel dragged on and on, giving the reader no real new tugs to pique our interest, I wondered where Boyle's editor was. Perhaps the writing style and repetitiveness were meant to give the reader a sense of the boredom and monotony that even group sex could come to have for a sex researcher, but I understood that after 200 pages, and this novel could have been half as long. I love TC Boyle, but this would be the last novel of his that I'd recommend.
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