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Title: Pass this one up!
Review: Well, I really wish I could say something pleasant about this novel but I'm as lost for words as Cook apparently was when he wrote the book. I can't recall the last time I've read an entire novel where I did not encounter a single new word -- new to my vocabulary, that is. Not that I buy novels to increase my vocabulary, but as I read this novel, that "peculiarity" stuck in my mind. The character development was atrocious, and the plot was so old and tired that even Cook seemed to give up toward the end and just shut his effort down with one of the most truncated endings I recall ever reading. I read the whole thing but would encourage other readers to avoid my mistake. Ouch!
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