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Title: not bad!
Review: At first I couldn't decide whether I loved this book or hated it. Now, having quickly turned the pages, finding I couldn't put it down, and finishing it in two weekdays, I think I like it! I don't particularly like the characters (these are not the kind of people I would want to be friends with) but found them fascinating to observe in a reality television fishbowl kind of way. The fact that there is no plot per se, was actually fine with me. I just read the book as a series of misadventures and enjoyed the ride. The characterizations and absurdities brought to mind Catch-22 and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.The dialogue is quite clever and the dialects superb. It's unfortunate Toole didn't live to continue his writing career.
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