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Title: "Flabbling" Waste of Time
Review: Being a fan of another alt-hist writer I thought I'd give Harry Turtledove a try. Maybe I should have started with an earlier novel, but I went for a more recent work assuming the author would have developed his writing skill.Unfortunately, I was disappointed. I thought "Settling Accounts" was a humorless bore with stilted plot development and empty characterizations. Even the cliffhanger ending sputtered out with a yawn. The in-your-face constant use of the "n" word,especially in combination with Turtledove's idiotic, parallel universe bending concept of "population reduction," is a straight up insult to every American, black or white, who lives in the South. Perhaps the author hoped those sentiments would stimulate thought and provoke discussion of the subject of racial inequality in the United States, but I found the novel far too juvenile to consider this within the realm of literary exploration. It was simply ugly.Darn, I was hoping to have a new author to follow.
