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Title: poor plot, paper-thin characters
Review: This book was just awful. The characters were paper-thin, with no substance. The plot was entirely predictable, and pointless. I read to the end, thinking that there had to be some twist, some redeeming feature -- but there was nothing. Just what you think will happen, happens. It felt like a bad movie, there was never an original idea in the whole novel. The writings about art were dictionary-like, and without any special insights. Frayn wouldn't last a minute as an art history lecturer.
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