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Title: slow start, slower ending
Review: I picked up this book because I am interested in Japanese culture and figure a Nobel Prize winning author writing a novel about a religious movement in modern day Japan would be right up my alley.After about 250 pages I kept telling myself "something will actually happen soon." Unfortunately nothing did. You could argue that the ending is climactic, but I argue that by the 400th page or so the reader will be so bored and in such a hurry to just finish this monstrosity that the ending will be of little interest and even less impact.
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