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Title: There's no There There
Review: Okay, I tried for a month to get into this book, but finally just gave up and returned to the library. There's just no story there. It's as if the author was trying desperately to replicate his enormous success of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." Although Venice is a fascinating place, descriptions of the scenery and ambiance can only go so far. The book starts off with a big fire in a legendary theater in Venice. But--it doesn't go much further. The people were boring and I found all those paragraphs of dialogue monotonous. It's rather weird how the author can turn up in a place--and a big dramatic event is happening. And everyone he meets is associated with the event. This is a book that I was really looking forward to reading but it's one that i simply couldn't generate any interest in. Sorry, John.
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