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Title: Flash and Filigree is a bad novel.
Review: I slogged through it only because Terry Southen has written some of the best books I have ever read. The Magic Christian and Candy are wonderful works of satire, so I kept thinking "This has to get better." It did not. The character's thoughts and motivations were wierd, overly complicated (as oppposed to Complex) and out of sinc with what was going on or at least just plain stupid It's hard to see the same author behind this one. Maybe it is because it was his first novel. I felt it was written by someone who is highly intelligent but completely lacking in esthetic judgement.
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