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Title: Diagnosis: Severe Disappointment
Review: It is hard for me to believe that this is the same guy who wrote the beautiful and hypnotic Einstein's Dreams, and even more difficult to imagine that this is a later work. The book reads like the plot of a TV movie, and not a particularly good one at that. Each character is an easy stereotype, and when Mr. Lightman tries to draw even stereotyped characters outside his own milieu he is even weaker. I kept waiting for this sorry job to get better, and it never did. I only finished it out of a sense of disbelief; it was a complete waste of my time.
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