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Title: Straining to be poetic
Review: What is the deal with the run-on sentences? They are distracting at best, incomprehensible at worst. I can't comment on the story line because I haven't finished the book...and don't know if I will after reading, "Overhead the sky was as blue as just-washed cafe crockery and the sun was shining brilliantly." I would expect to read something like that in a college creative writing class. I'll stick to Irving and Vonnegut...this "flowery" writing makes me cringe and distracts me from the story as I critique the poetry. In my opinion, if distracts from the story, it simply doesn't work.
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