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Title: A rather dreary book
Review: Unlike the two other Portis novels I've read, this one drags on with no wit or even recognizable theme. The plot involves an idiot who believes wholly in a con game sort of religion and devotes his life to promoting it.In the spirit of honesty, that's about as far as I got. He founded this religion, and then the book goes off into what amounts to office politics as the main protagonist reconfigures the religion, gains or loses control of it and that was it for me.Unlike 'Norwood' and 'True Grit' both of which I enjoyed enormously, this book just didn't work for me. I suppose had I stuck with it, perhaps, by the end, some of the wit and wisdom Portis showed in those two other books would have surfaced, but for me, life isn't forever and I was bored completely with this flat fare.
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