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Title: a hip, literate thriller adobo
Review: Garland serves up a literary treat as tasty and Filipino in flavor as chicken adobo. A hip, literate, crime thriller both gripping and thoughtful. Nicely spare--a lot is conveyed (about plot and character) in few words. Only weakness is when Garland waxes overly metaphysical (e.g., forcing the tesseract analogy, or serving up post-modern existentialist cliches). Still very cool. (I will definitely go find a copy of The Beach.)
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