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Title: Where have all the editors gone?
Review: I give this two stars instead of one so as not to have the devastating effect an unfavorable review in the story has. Just kidding; actually I give it three stars for content, one star for execution. Yes, as several of the reviews here state, the dialogue just doesn't come off. It IS "clunky"; it IS stilted. Everything about the book seems amateurish. On the other hand, this is a first novel, and its author is professionally a musician, not a writer. You have to start somewhere. I think the real problem is that this book needed to be refashioned in collaboration with an experienced, talented editor, and nowadays money-games-playing stockholders consider editors an expense corporate publishing companies can do without. In any case, I read it in one sitting, and overall I enjoyed it.
