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Title: Straight to the charity pile
Review: There's no way I'm going to recommend this to anyone I know. Golden couldn't seem to decide between writing a travelogue or a cheesy novel and ended up failing at both. He's got a few moments of smart dialogue or interesting factlets (the old lady's chicken-neck thing...eww) but those only seem to highlight the rest of the book's shortcomings (like the thin plot and the pathetic, one-dimensional characters). The highest praise I can give is that it's a decent time-killer and I wouldn't smack it out of someone's hands if I saw them reading it. As for me, I'm going to try to forget I ever saw it.
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