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Title: Overrated...
Review: I decided that I needed to finally read this "classic" and what a disappointment...The novel isn't written all that well (despite the comments to the contrary) and is filled with non-sequiters (not in a good, fragmented Dos Passos way), jumbled fill-in-the-gap flashbacks, and poor prose. Additionally, the novel suffers from an extremely contrived plot and climax. I'm sure at one point in the history of American Literature this could have been seen as a clever and biting indictment of the upper crust of society, but reading it in 2007 exposes it as only another variety of the boring 19th century society fiction in the same vein as Austen, Bronte, etc.
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