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Title: A tedious, boring lecture
Review: Much of The Pride is a boring,narcissistic exercise.Long passages read as if they were the author lecturing rather than the characters speaking . These history telling monologues inform and reinform the reader about the mores, foibles and existence of this "elite" group of African-Americans as if their existence were a revelation. It was repetitious and preachy and the characters tended to speak as if they were clones of the author. The Pride was also incrediably slow-moving because it lacked sufficient interaction and believable dialogue between the characters. Thus, what I recall and detest about the characters is that they all graduated from Dartmouth, Harvard or Mount Holyoke ? ( are these the author's favorite best ? colleges) and use adjectives such as "knucklehead" or "chucklehead" repetitively to describe foolish acquaintances. How quaint ! I struggled to complete this novel, and by the time I did, I cared not at all about the outcome of the so -called plot.
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