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Title: Pointless
Review: I really wanted to like this well-meaning tale of middle-aged man trying to rebuild his life after he's dumped by his boyfriend of twenty years for a Joan Collins character. But in the end, I wanted to get back some of the life that I'd wasted reading this self-congratulatory tripe, featuring the most wooden, agonising dialogue since James Earl Hardy's last effort. But the worst part of it is nothing happens. Nothing! Unless you count having Catholicism rammed down your throat by a bunch of one dimensional bores being terribly nice to one another. Then, to add insult to injury, in the final pages one character refers to the sex of her unborn twins by saying "one nice package and one tiny little t***." I can't recall having ever read such an ill-judged and tasteless piece of imagery.I wish that, like the title character, I was back where I started - before I'd ever picked this up.
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