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Title: the worst book I ever read
Review: A friend gave me this book to read on a plane. he loved it and it made him cry. I was excited to give it a try. The worst book I have ever, ever read in my life. The writing style (lexicon used, vocabulary, etc) is so poor, that a 9 year elementary school student can write with more imagination. What a miserable prose... The plot is weak, the characters (that are flawlessly perfect in every way) are flat, 2 dimensional, no development. The story is not credible to begin with. The writing is repetitive, the author has no imaginative ideas, in addition he makes factual mistakes (in 1946 his Noah is wearing jeans like James Dean, but in fact, these pants werent even called jeans at that time, nor they were in fashion). Someone who reads Nabokov, Umberto Eco, Markos Garcia, Marcel Proust-- never should touch books by Sparks. It is a shame, I cant believe that some people actually rate it 5 stars.
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