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Title: Dismal, depressing, unremittingly grim
Review: The book begins with a little boy dying as he vomits tapeworms that are still alive and wriggling, and gets grimmer from there. This is the single most depressing book I have ever read, because it's essentially hopeless without the redemption of educating or instructing the reader in any meaningful way. Robert Morgan can certainly write; I only hope that he writes more interesting books in the future. In the meantime, I suggest "Cold Mountain" as a book about hard mountain life, but with a soul as well.
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