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Title: Hell on earth is trying to get through this book.
Review: I can not remember being MORE disappointed with a novel. Mr. Watson's run-on approach to describing events did not pull me in but bored me. The main character, Finus, spends his whole life desiring from afar a woman (Birdie) for no other given reason than he saw her naked in the woods when he was 13 years old. There is only a passing reference to her being pretty- and none to her being particularly kind or fun.Mr. Watson's interpretation of a relationship between a black domestic and her white employer was embarrassingly lacking. No nuisances, no subtleties.My last example of the degree to which this novel is pathetic is that the undertaker in this novel has a thing for having sex with dead people, or people who act dead. Very unoriginal!
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