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Title: Fans of Blue Like Jazz, Avoid
Review: I loved Blue Like Jazz, and liked Searching for God Knows What a lot, but this left me very cold. The sort of feigned modern-day Kerouac thing just comes off as pretentious &, worse, dull. Neither Miller nor his travelling companion are very compelling characters. Their adventures are not all that interesting. The insights sprinkled through the narrative are few & far between, and really not all that insightful. It was if he wanted to merge a Bill Bryson travellogue with Blue Like Jazz - but forgot the humor found in both. Instead, we get a couple of really fairly dull guys limping along the American West in a beat up VW van. Miller is witty enough that I can't quite give him only one star, though probably should. Call it 1.5 stars. Not good.
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