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Title: Disappointing
Review: I made it through the vapid introduction and most of the way through the first chapter before skipping around and skimming here and there. Skal's writing is rather boring, and by page 40, I still had no grasp on his meandering portrait of Halloween. He seemed to be trying to keep the short-attention span crowd entertained with his whimsically peppered history lessons, but unfortunately he leaves the rest of us behind. How disappointing.
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