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Title: Plodding
Review: Note that my evaluation of this book is that of a reader--not an English professor, or a lit/crit grad student, or historian. I am sure the book has many merits from those perspectives, where it fits in as far as the canon of American Lit., war books, etc. However, as a novel to be picked up and read for enjoyment, it must rank as one of the most boring and stilted I have come across. It goes nowhere. Nothing much happens for pages at a time. The dialogue is uninteresting, and the characters are surprisingly predictable and one dimensional.
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