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Title: What's the big deal?
Review: After reading Five People I still don't know why all the fuss. It is not a well written book. The story relies far too much on sensational events - a POW camp escape, a failed rescue in a stormy sea, a successful rescue at an amusement park tragedy, blah blah blah. The book is at its best when it doesn't rely on such third grade nonsense, i.e the parts that focus in Eddie and his wife.
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