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Title: quite overrated
Review: Well, I finished it. That's saying something I guess, but what a waste of time. It's one of those books that had a lot of nice reviews by an author who is well respected. I used to read Straub's early works but stopped reading him about the same time I stopped reading Stephen King. I kept expecting the book to go somewhere. The protaginist Tim Underhill held little interest to me. The e-mails from beyond were an extremely silly gimmick. I kept expecting to like the book more to be scared excited or something, but in the end I was just bored. I read the paperback, but did not even bother to read the first ten pages of the next Straub/ Underhill novel that they tend to put at the end of popular writers paperback editions. (I peeked it had those silly e-mails again.) It'll be awhile before I give Straub another chance.
