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Title: House of Cards
Review: What is all the hype about? This "first novel" is a derivative, contrived muddle that tries frantically to appear clever and original by tediously exploiting every known postmodern ruse but which at nearly every turn consistently fails to deliver, leaving the reader with the same queasy and unsatisfied feeling as if indulging in too much cheap junk food. The unoriginality and ponderousness encountered in this book are on the same scale as the rooms and passageways in the house it describes. I was bored to tears by the obviousness and clumsy moral earnestness of it all. The final subtext of this book--if you follow all the footnotes--is desperation, the result of someone trying like hell to pull the wool over your eyes for fear of revealing the only truly grim realization of this horror story: it isn't written very well. The publication hype is as shallow and faddish as the book. Save yourself 20 bucks.
