![]() ![]() ![]() But it hasn't led to a good book, and couldn't have." - Clive James, The Atlantic Monthly ![]() Luckily for the reader's mental health, Roth is no more capable of an uninteresting sentence than Dan Brown is capable of an interesting one. (.) Roth does a pretty good job of spoiling the story himself, by dishing out improbabilities with shameless haste if it were not for the quality of the writing, you could be reading The Da Vinci Code. For a writer blessed with the eyes and ears to find real life fantastic in every detail, fantasy is the wrong form. Unfortunately, the saturation goes right down to the level of its telling.
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