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Title: So what IS the fuss?
Review: So I read it -based upon the euphoric reviews. Excuse me - while there are two hilarious scenes regarding academia (Zora's blackmail of the dean to gain admission to a class and a university faculty meeting) and one truly sad scene when an older faculty member goes back to visit his working class dad, there is nothing else to recommend reading 400+ pages about basically uninteresting, sometimes nasty folks - no matter what their color. The book is disjointed in terms of narrative and uninteresting in terms of characters. If I met them at a gathering of any sort I would run for cover and I am so annoyed that I spent as much time with them as I did.
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