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Title: aargh! 3 years of solitary disappoinment!
Review: i bought this book several years ago on the recommendation of someone i thought would know better. so i started it and stopped about 50 pages into this "opus". just didn't connect. my boyfriend will not allow a book to leave our library so i stuffed it back in. 3 years later i picked it up and it started its limited appeal. i committed myself to finishing it even tho' it was frustrating. i agree with several reviewers that there is definitely HYPE about this book and OCCASIONALLY sparks some interest and imagination. that being said, the protagonist, I. Reilly, is too fantastic to believe. the one character i really belived and found terrific was "Jones". here is a ripe character. everthing else is overwrought and silly. IF YOU WANT great character development and wild imagination pick up Eugenides' MIDDLESEX or MARQUEZ' One Hundred Years of Solitude ---HERE LIES BRILLIANCE.
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