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Title: bad porn
Review: I bought this book because it was so heavily hyped, but it turned out to be mess of stilted prose, overly demanding plot details, and bad sadomasochistic porn. Every sentence rings of foolish bombast, the characters have no emotional appeal, and I felt so manipulated I had to throw the book across the room. I have tried to pick up the book again, being a third of the way through, but it repels me again and again. I am no literary snob, I read science fiction and some fantasy all the time, and I am no literary lightweight, enjoying Henry James as much as the next guy, but this piece of marketing mush failed to appeal at any level. The book reads like it was started on an alt.sex newsgroup.
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