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Title: Trite.
Review: I found this book to be appalingly shallow and, taken as a whole, rather dull. There is no thought-provoking content introduced here; just the sad, silly ramblings of a typical self-absorbed post-modernist urban male trying to recapture the youthful zeal of a past rememberd but never lived. Not only did I fail to sympathize with the narrator, I did not care what he was saying or why.I did not have a problem with the novel's content - infidelity has been the topic of novels, films and plays too numerous to mention, many of which I've enjoyed. The successful ones broach the subject with a clear eye or fresh voice (or both), and shed light on what is generally overlooked or ignored. INTIMACY does none of those things.
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