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Title: A total ripoff
Review: I'm one of those readers who bought into all the hype about this book. I plodded through the first 70 pages reading and rereading the pretentious stonecold 60s prose until like it almost made sense to me daddyo. You need to take magic mushrooms to grasp the pseudo profundities of this novel. Unfortunately I don't have any handy. The book is really maddening. It has no structure and no point other than the writer eventually goes nuts, probably because he's tried to rereard the novel himself and realized the hopelessness of it all. Stones of Summer is a big mud wallow of words that you can easy suffocate in. I feel I have been totally suckered by the hooptedoo surrounding this so called great lost masterpiece. No wonder Entertainment Weekly gave it a D-
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