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Title: Disappointing, pointless, no redeeming qualities
Review: With great expectations, our reading group, all fans of Annie Proulx, took up Accordion Crimes. Alas, we were unanimous in our profound disappointmen. Nowhere in the book did there appear a shred of hopefulness, a bit of redemption, any glimmer of relief from the relentless pessimism and heavyhanded grimness. The characters themselves were unlikable, for the most part, and the view of humanity in this book is worthy of the most confirmed misanthrope. None of us in the reading group could understand what the point of this whole exercise was. A waste of time.
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