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Title: insipid
Review: The trees: The prose is clumsy, careless, tasteless, often ungrammatical. Its diction is inconsistent. Yet the prose has literary pretensions (it oozes pretension): much of its awkwardness is deliberate, perverse, ostentatious--abusive.The forest: In place of a plot we have the protagonist--a dim-witted, shallow, narcissistic fellow--droning on about himself and the deadly dull circumstances of his life. This protagonist prides himself on "the depth of his thought". Dramatic irony? No such luck.
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