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Title: Too bad my last name isn't Shakespeare
Review: There is absolutely no way Mr. Tolkien could have gotten this crap published if he had a different last name. Gramps was able to create rich colorful characters who happened to be elves and hobbits without, presumably, ever meeting one. His grandson writes like he has never met a human being. People simply don't act like the characters in this book do. All creaky chess-piece moves are simply to propel the plot weakly along, and never have the ring of truth. This is clearly the worst "thriller," to use that term very losely, I have read in years.
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