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Title: The Literary Hoax of 2003
Review: Barnes and Nobles is perpetrating the greatest literary hoax in years and all at the expense of a very ordinary novel that should have stayed forgotten. I tried to cut through the thicket of verbiage, but the writing was so self-indulgent and adolescent that I stopped at page 75. Previous reviewers were on target about this book's mean, anti-woman slant. All the women are hideous caricatures: saints or street-walkers and often both. The author has the insights and prejudices of an unelightened 14 year old boy.
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