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Title: Too much of a bad thing
Review: I usually appreciate the writing of Geraldine Brooks, and I purchased Year of Wonders because I had heard it glowingly reviewed on NPR. Of course, you know it is the Plague that has attacked this town before they know it, but then you're into pages and pages of pus and purple spots, and the emptying of piss pots to the point of thinking, "Okay, I get it. This was terrible, but when are you going to write scenes that are not just the repetitions of the relentless gore?" I couldn't finish it. Very unlike me, to go 3/4 of the way through a book and say, "I've had enough."
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