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Title: Poorly written and tiring
Review: After a while, the book became the same old, same old. Whores, prostitutes, gamblers, thieves, and miscreants dot the pages. There is nothing very uplifting in the book, which makes me wonder exactly why he wrote it, other than perhaps to purge his soul of what he experienced as a child.I didn't find anything even close to the noble struggle of people in bad circumstances rising above those circumstances to become fully human in the face of wretchedness. In addition, his distaste for Christians, while honest and honestly come by (the Catholics in this book are reprehensible characters) comes out in spades.While it paints a vivid picture of the squallor of NYC at the turn of the last century, after a while all the badness gets tiring to read.
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