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Title: I must be missing something...
Review: My book club chose this book for our upcoming selection. A friend in the club and I have come to the same conclusion: we cannot finish this book. We have both read chapter after chapter, waiting for the book to be other than mildly amusing and somewhat boring, but we never got to any part that hooked us into the book. The author seems to think he is hilarious, in a rather self-consious manner, and his whole tone seems to proclaim, "aren't I just so clever"; apparently many people agree with him. I seemed to miss everyone's boat here, because I found the book so boring that I could not go on anymore.
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