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the emperor of ocean park by stephen l. carter

From:     book reviews
Category: Books
Date:     17 January 2008
Time:     03:55 PM

Review:

this is a terrible pompous clunkily written unthrilling thriller. a plodding book made worse by the heavy 
strain of reactionary god is real and great PC bad, shouldnt we go back to the past nonsense 
espoused by the main character acting as the mouthpiece of the author. The characters are wooden 
cut outs whose inertia is increased by leaden dialogue. Even the surprises seem like an eleven year 
old's idea of cliffhangers.  awful but i read it all. 


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