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Title: Needs a good editor
Review: I read this novel after watching the documentary Stone Reader and was terribly disappointed. Stones of Summer is a mudhouse of verbiage that collapses under its own pretentious weight. By the end of the book I felt sorry for the poor author, Dow Mossman.A note on the documentary:I originally gave Stone Reader a positive review on amazon.com despite reservations about the director's dubious 'search' for Mossman and his annoying attempts to upstage the publishing people he interviews. What changed my mind was a recent newspaper story about how he sent our thousands of e-mails begging others to leave favorable reviews at amazon.com, even if they had never seen the movie. Trickery of this sort lowers my opinion of both the director and his film. Neither is worthy of our consideration.
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