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Title: Abominable drivel for 2013
Review: When I read this as an 11 year old kid in 1964, I just LOVED it! But then my taste was all in my mouth. Now the lengthy internal monologues, stilted conversations and sexist language would make a modern reader toss it in the garbage. Sure, it's been overcome by events, having been published 50 years ago, but that's not the problem. The problem is the nearly unreadable style. It would now rise as high on any popularity chart as a Thomas Hardy novel. Maybe not quite that high. It's possible to write about the past and make it engaging, but West is too busy sermonizing and pontificating (Sorry!) to write an interesting story for people today to enjoy. It didn't age well. In retrospect I wonder what the hell I found so compelling back then.
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