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Title: I no longer have respect for the Pulitzer
Review: This book was passed on to me by a friend who stopped reading it halfway through because it so annoyed her. Turns out I almost chucked the book at the same place but doggedly slogged through thinking there would be a payoff that justified the Pulitzer. It never got any better. All I can say it must have been a slow book year, akin to giving an academy award to a 60's beach party movie. It is the WORST book I've ever read. The characterizations were were stereotypical and offensive, the plot was banal, and the characters themselves (with the minor exception of the ever-suffering cop) lacked any quality that made one care what happened to any of them. If you've lived a very sheltered life (and the author apparently lived with his mother and didn't the house until he committed suicide) this may seem funny; I felt that I wasted time that could have otherwise been spent reading a GOOD book.
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