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Title: Argh!
Review: The first 100 or so pages were excellent. After that, it was tedious at best. Much time is devoted to major charachters like Mr. Segundus, who then tend to vanish entirely for several hundred pages.The book could have used a brutal editor to cut it down to a fraction of its current size, and it would have been far more readable. Its a pity, because the core of a really fantastic saga is clearly there. But it gets buried under piles of mush.
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